Posted on 10/13/2016 9:21:26 AM PDT by keat
U.S. President Barack Obama and his top foreign policy advisers are expected to meet on Friday to consider their military and other options in Syria as Syrian and Russian aircraft continue to pummel Aleppo and other targets, U.S. officials said.
Some top officials argue the United States must act more forcefully in Syria or risk losing what influence it still has over moderate rebels and its Arab, Kurdish and Turkish allies in the fight against Islamic State, the officials told Reuters.
One set of options includes direct U.S. military action such as air strikes on Syrian military bases, munitions depots or radar and anti-aircraft bases, said one official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.
This official said one danger of such action is that Russian and Syrian forces are often co-mingled, raising the possibility of a direct confrontation with Russia that Obama has been at pains to avoid.
U.S. officials said they consider it unlikely that Obama will order U.S. air strikes on Syrian government targets, and they stressed that he may not make any decisions at the planned meeting of his National Security Council.
One alternative, U.S. officials said, is allowing allies to provide U.S.-vetted rebels with more sophisticated weapons, although not shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles, which Washington fears could be used against Western airliners.
The White House declined to comment.
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I guess Obama is still smarting from drawing that red line in the sand.
Three .... Two .... One .....TIME FOR WAG THE DOG?
Where to put that red line...
Trump is correct
Aleppo is over. The only thing that matters is defeating ISIS
Klownie the Kenyan wants a mess before he leaves. Vindictive as ever. I’m sure the soldiers on the groiund are just waiting for the days when Trump cleans up the military.
Friday is always a good day to fire them up at the local mosque.
Is that before or after he sends them a pallet of money?
THIS IS INSANE!
Is there anyone in the military that will tell this SOB that this is not going to happen?!?
WAR is Hillary’s campaign..?
Don’t expect O-bozo to grow a set between now and his golf encrusted retirement, where he can leave with his putter and balls firmly in hand.
It’s one thing to throw some missles at powdered milk factories in third world countries, quite another to directly confront the Russians.
He’s trying to start WWIII.
Can’t help but wonder if they’re really crazy enough to start WW3 to prevent Clinton from losing the election.
Obama will announce we are now allied with ISIS fighting against the Russkies.
Obama wants to fight on the wrong side and aid the terrorists, and the GOP establishment agrees, as usual. Let’s hope we find some way to stop this.
Email your congressman and tell him this is no time for another useless war, sacrificing our troops for no purpose except to make Obama grin.
“U.S.-vetted rebels” = al-Nusra AKA ISIS .
[One alternative, U.S. officials said, is allowing allies to provide U.S.-vetted rebels with more sophisticated weapons, although not shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles, which Washington fears could be used against Western airliners.]
Brilliant. Give Al-Qaida more sophisticated weapons.
I'll just say my expectations are about as low as they could be.
“We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.” Lyndon B. Johnson
Like George Costanza and his opposite strategy, and Oceania’s Ministry of Truth, `rats almost always say one thing then do another.
So if Obama is sounding like a raging queen, fretting over the goals of his Wahabi Saudi masters, it means they will do nothing. He’d better not.
Chill Barry. Grab Reggie and go slice & hook some golf balls, then some afternoon delight.
O is desperate. his time is running out and he has not yet managed to install his IslamoNazi terrorist gangster friends in control
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