Posted on 10/30/2015 12:17:43 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
President Obama is directing the Pentagon to send special forces into Syria to advise the Syrian opposition in its fight against ISIS, the White House said today.
The change will station U.S. special operations forces on the ground for the first time in Syria in its fight against the Islamic State after thousands of airstrikes in the past year produced mixed results, although their mission is expected to be primarily advisory.
The change "is consistent with strategy to intensify the battle against ISIS,†a White House senior official told ABC News.
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Taking sides in a popular revolution.
Se should clearly be fighting for Bashaar Al Assad like the Russians. These government people are childish in their understanding of of Sunni Wahhabi. I’m tired of it.
You are totally wrong. Not one word was true. If you think Bashaar Al Asaad “trained Al Queda” You are a liar or you are stupid. Idiot!! You must me a Mc Cain Jack Ass.
Anyway Syria reminds me of all that. Multiple ethnic groups and multiple religions. Russia has been allied with the Assads for over 50 years. At least the Assads seemed to keep a lid on the chaos that erupts when no one has an iron hand over there.
Why Barky was trying to overthrow Assad is anybody's guess, not to mention the question of what was he doing starting a secret war there? Where was Congress on this?
insightful post. The ignorance of bush will go down as the most stupid move by a president in our history. We ,of couse . should have attacked those that attacked us. It is like they stereotyped all Arabs as looking the same. Beyond stupid. Cost us this country!!
A group that Dubya was pals with had been itching to invade and conquer Iraq well before 9-11. Some of them had signed a letter to Clinton urging him to knock off Saddam back in 1998. In large part they orbited around the Project for a New American Century, a think tank of liberals and neocons who wanted us to reconfigure the Middle East by force. They were the sort of fools who never considered the role that Islam plays there, and in their imaginary world you could make Arabs into part of the West by sprinkling the magic pixie dust of democracy on them. The possibility that Arabs would vote for jihad against the West never occurred to these geniuses.
The link below carries the title “Syria conflict: Russia warns US of ‘proxy war risk’.” Russian Foreign Minister said the following after meeting with Kerry and others: Mr Lavrov said the US had decided on its move “unilaterally and without any reference to the Syrian leadership”. He added: “I am convinced that neither the United States nor Russia of course want any kind of slide into a so-called proxy war. But to me it is obvious that this situation makes the task of co-operation between the militaries even more relevant.”
So it sounds as though we did get the Russian’s attention with this move. Personally, I think Putin just wants to not appear irrelevant rather than to get into any nasty, costly war with the US. We all need to remember the Spanish Civil War to avoid those mistakes.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34685183
This link has more than a dozen additional recent links about the Syria and/or Russia situation. Plan to read more tomorrow to sharpen my conjectures.
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....HIS ADVISERS
I did not say Putin was irrelevant. I said he may be tired of appearing so, as most of the examples you cite are behind the scenes activities. The current Syrian move was certainly a very in-your-face one, and many people who don’t usually pay attention are paying attention now.
Another situation to watch is what kind of double game the Turks are playing now. Two anti Assad media folk murdered (beheaded?) in Turkey, much anti Kurd activity in a number of different manners, etc.
the two boys beheaded were anti ISIS, not anti Assad
Must have been terrifying
Terrifying indeed, and did Turkey allow this to happen, or was this simply an isolated incident?
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