US Special Forces deployed as ‘human shields’ to salvage terror assets in Syria

RT ^ | Nov 1 2015 | Finian Cunningham

[WilliamIII]

Obama’s decision to send Special Forces into Syria is being widely viewed as a US military escalation in the country. The troop dispatch also signals that the US trying to forestall Russian successes in wiping out Washington’s regime-change assets in Syria.

In short, the US Special Forces are being used as “human shields” to curb Russian air strikes against anti-government mercenaries, many of whom are instrumental in Washington’s regime-change objective in Syria.

First of all, we need to view a host of developments, including the hastily convened “peace talks” in Vienna, as a response by the US and its allies to the game-changing military intervention by Russia. That intervention, beginning on September 30, has not only dealt massive blows to militants, it has completely changed the balance of forces to give the Assad government the upper hand in the war against foreign-backed extremists. That, in turn, has sent the US-led powers trying to topple Damascus into disarray.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Putin is polling his allies to see if they would agree with using nuclear weapons to take out ISIS

I vote yes.

[Bob434]

Sick- He’s protecting the terrorists

[Pelham]

“And now I’m seeing sites that claim Putin is polling his allies to see if they would agree with using nuclear weapons to take out ISIS.”

That sounds a bit dubious to me. I can’t imagine what benefit a nuclear weapon would offer. Conventional weapons seem to be the natural choice for eliminating ISIS.

[The_Republic_Of_Maine]

I’m not going to comment because if I do I would probably then have to plead the fifth.

But I will say this, back in the mid 60’s to mid 70’s it was called Fragging.