There was a curious incident a few years ago involving a relative of Andy Card and her friendship with some Iraqi spies. This relative had an interesting story to tell about the Lockerbie bombing...remember?
I'll agree with that, however, he does not make his case that Syria did not do it.
I’m guessing the Amish did it.
“After the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003, Gadhafi gave up his weapons of mass destruction programs, paid reparations to the families of Pan Am 103 victims, restored normal relations with the United States and recognized we had a common enemy in al-Qaida.
Then President Obama used military force — not authorized by Congress — to help rebels overthrow Gadhafi.
After Gadhafi fell, the Islamic State established a foothold in Libya.
The moral in this chain of events?”
Don’t trust the United States if we ask you to give up your nukes.
I don’t believe anything from Obama’s CIA, FBI.
Nobody seems to want to consider that Russia really needs the US to be caught somewhere in the middle of this issue. They would have one hell of a time making Assad and Iran make nice in the sandbox without the Great Satan to keep them otherwise occupied. While Obama’s militants might be desperate enough to stage this there are other players who have interests in keeping this dance going.
In geopolitics, facts take a back seat to policy objectives. When Lockerbie happened the prevailing policy objective was to pressure Gaddafi to capitulate. So the crash was used in furtherance of the policy.
It was an easy call because the facts were awkward. The US would have been required to admit the bomb-carrying suitcase had been substituted for a drug-carrying suitcase which was part of a CIA/DIA operation to import heroin. The Iranians knew about the operation and managed to infiltrate it and perform the switch.
This chlorine poisoning atrocity in Syria is useful for furtherance of the US policy of destabilizing Syria and giving the Russians problems in their corner of the world. The fact that it was probably done by the surrounded “rebels” to forestall or prevent their own deaths, does not serve any US policy objective and therefore doesn’t matter.
If you want to see “truth” win out in the end, watch Perry Mason reruns. You won’t see it in the real world until Apocalypse becomes policy.
In his zeal to support the Iran/Russia/Syria/North Korea axis, the author offered no evidence to support his conclusion as stated in the headline. His piece is beside the point anyway. Assad and his allies trying to establish military facilities in Syria must go.
Some say it can't be Assad because it would "make no sense" and I say that the flip side is that Assad already makes no sense and could have seen the comments about us getting out as a perfect alibi - why would he do this if we were getting out.....IOW - the intel agencies are the only ones with half a clue right now.