Pentagon Considers Launching Limited Military Action Against Assad

Reuters ^ | October 8, 2016 | Mike Theiler

[Strategy]

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon is considering carrying out limited attacks in Syria that don't drag U.S. President Barack Obama to an embarrassing situation, along with several U.S. security bodies holding meetings since weeks to figure out a solution to the rising crisis in Aleppo amid potential U.S. attacks against the Syrian regime.

Officials in the Pentagon and the White House told Asharq al-Awsat newspaper that these airstrikes will not be disclosed and the U.S. won't claim them publicly.

Some analysts expressed concerns over the mounting tension between Russia and the U.S. as this might drift the Syrian war and spur a military conflict. However, the Pentagon source seems certain that a U.S. decisive military step can be taken without any risk or real danger.

[sport]

It is not. And if Russia responds it is not going to be pretty, if fact, it will get very nasty because Russians will not care if our transgenders get their make up mussed.

And as far as the legions of obama worshipers ans ass kissers go, their ability of comprehension begins and ends with obama good, everything else bad. They give not one tinker’s damn about the amount of blood and lives it will cost our Service People.

And the Neocon Republicans? There has never been a second in time that they have not been willing and able to shed the blood of others in order to feather their own nests.

[RetiredArmy]

Isaiah chapter 17: verse 1, Damascus is destroyed in a night. Then we move on to Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39. For those that are unbelievers and don’t believe the Bible is true or real, I suggest you read chapters 38 and 39. They tell you EXACTLY what is going on now and what will be in the future. Those chapters tell you that Russia, Iran, Turkey, and all those muzzie “stans” nations will come against Israel. But, God defends Israel. If you don’t believe it, hang around and you will see it.

[eekitsagreek]

This is not going to end well.

[ETL]

The Soros-supported Obama adimin has been out to help the Russians regain superpower status from day 1. Actually even before they came to power.

So don't so easily fall for the smoke and mirrors BS coming from this demonRat administration, or the Russians, who have a well-known long history of spreading disinformation and committing complex/sophisticated acts of deception.

The Russians are masters of the art of deception. They play chess, thinking many moves ahead of their opponents, while most of us, unfortunately, suck at simple checkers.

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From the campaign trail, 2008...

Obama Pledges Cuts in Missile Defense, Space, and Nuclear Weapons Programs

February 29, 2008 :: News
MissileThreat.com

A video has surfaced of Presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama talking on his plans for strategic issues such as nuclear weapons and missile defense.

The full text from the video, as released, reads as follows:

Thanks so much for the Caucus4Priorities, for the great work you've been doing. As president, I will end misguided defense policies and stand with Caucus4Priorities in fighting special interests in Washington.

First, I'll stop spending $9 billion a month in Iraq. I'm the only major candidate who opposed this war from the beginning. And as president I will end it.[i.e. not win it]

Second, I will cut tens of billions of dollars in wasteful spending.

I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems.

I will not weaponize space.

I will slow our development of future combat systems.

And I will institute an independent "Defense Priorities Board" to ensure that the Quadrennial Defense Review is not used to justify unnecessary spending.

Third, I will set a goal of a world without nuclear weapons. To seek that goal, I will not develop new nuclear weapons; I will seek a global ban on the production of fissile material; and I will negotiate with Russia to take our ICBMs off hair-trigger alert, and to achieve deep cuts in our nuclear arsenals.

You know where I stand. I've fought for open, ethical and accountable government my entire public life. I don't switch positions or make promises that can't be kept. I don't posture on defense policy and I don't take money from federal lobbyists for powerful defense contractors. As president, my sole priority for defense spending will be protecting the American people. Thanks so much.

Article: Obama Pledges Cuts in Missile Defense, Space, and Nuclear Weapons Programs:

http://web.archive.org/web/20090412030633/http://missilethreat.com/archives/id.7086/detail.asp

"MissileThreat.com is a project of The Claremont Institute devoted to understanding and promoting the requirements for the strategic defense of the United States."

[Mariner]

"However, the Pentagon source seems certain that a U.S. decisive military step can be taken without any risk or real danger."

That line alone convinces me the Pentagon Source is really the other guy who lives in the author's head.

I assure you there's not a single man in uniform, or who once wore a uniform that believes that statement to be true.

[ETL]

I’m against ANY offensive overseas military action of ANY kind by the Obama Administration on the grounds that I don’t believe a damn thing they say!

And you shouldn't, as it was THEY who gave Putin just about everything he wanted on all-important missile defense and nukes, including the very dangerous Iran nuke deal.

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From Real Clear Politics, Sept 10, 2015...

"In a 2014 New Yorker interview, Obama said his goal was to create a 'new equilibrium' in the Middle East.

In the short run, at least, his signature diplomatic undertaking can be counted on to bring more violence to this volatile region.

The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, as the [Obama-Putin Iran deal] agreement is formally known, provides the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism an infusion of somewhere in the neighborhood of $100 billion of unfrozen assets and a great deal more of continuing revenues as businesses and governments around the world rush to profit from oil-and-gas-rich Iran's reintegration into the world economy.

The agreement relaxes the international isolation of the Islamic Republic and ratifies Tehran's status as a nuclear threshold state. And it relieves restrictions on Iran's acquisition of weapons, including ballistic missiles. ..."

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/09/10/iran_deal_throws_sparks_on_mideast_tinderbox_128034.html
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Aug 2015

[Mariner]

"People on both sides of this realize that Putin is just using the situation in Syria as an opportunity to establish a foothold in the strategic, oil/gas-rich Middle East, as Putin’s aim is to basically bring back the Soviet Union and then-some with control of the Middle East."

Surely even you would concede the Russians would not have forces in Syria if the US had not attempted regime change there.

And to attempt regime change against a Russian client state, without ANY strategic interest at stake was folly of the highest order.

When I assign blame for this debacle, I assign it to the Obama admin and the extended Western alliances and current political order.

And I'm unable to perceive intended malice by the Russians toward America.

[Fred Hayek]

I think Obama knows that Hillary is going to lose. So he is looking to burn it down. I had thought that it would be in the form of urban riots. It looks like I may be wrong. I am afraid that Obama is looking to goad Putin into nuking the United States.

This is yet another Democrat President that has nearly started World War 3. (Clinton’s general Weasley Clark almost starting it un Serbia).

It looks like this hawk (and still pro-defense) has turned anti-war.

[ETL]

And I'm unable to perceive intended malice by the Russians toward America.

Are you unable to perceive how this fits into the larger picture of overall Russian expansionism and aggressiveness elsewhere, such as in eastern Europe. And their arming of hostile (to us) leftist regimes in Latin America? Their protection and support of menacing communist North Korea, and Iran? Or their closer than ever military alliance with the rapidly growing ChiComs, who they've been conducting joint war games with since 2005, in obvious preparation for war with us and our allies? Or their clear intent to bring back the Soviet Union, or something not to dissimilar to it?

Again, it's the over-all big picture that we need to be concerned about. If Obama had ever been serious about going after ISIS, which I doubt he ever was, we wouldn't be in this difficult situation we are in today. I am convinced he did it deliberately for the purpose of affording Putin the opportunity to move in, considering all he did to make Russia stronger, and how much and his commie ilk hate and want to weaken America.

[dfwgator]

[kagnew]

“He is itching to leave us with a war with Russia. Almost eerything this guy touches winds up in disaster.”

This way, obama gets to declare martial law, no elections and he and his brood continue to live off the gravy train. Wouldn’t surprise me.

[Lazamataz]

I remember when Obama termed a military move (that circumvented Congress) a Kinetic Military Action.

K.M.A. Get it? He’s so clever.

[444Flyer]

Isaiah chapter 17: verse 1, Damascus is destroyed in a night. Then we move on to Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39. For those that are unbelievers and don’t believe the Bible is true or real, I suggest you read chapters 38 and 39. They tell you EXACTLY what is going on now and what will be in the future. Those chapters tell you that Russia, Iran, Turkey, and all those muzzie “stans” nations will come against Israel. But, God defends Israel. If you don’t believe it, hang around and you will see it.

Yes. And ready or not, believe it or not, it's coming. The LORD will only allow man to go so far in destroying himself.

The rebellious and God defiant people of the world are in for a reality check.

[hal ogen]

Hey, Clown Prince nobama... Return that joke of a nobel peace prize!

[ETL]

He is itching to leave us with a war with Russia. Almost everything this guy touches winds up in disaster.

Important to note, it is not due to "incompetence", "inexperience", or "naivete", although he no doubt is all of these things. These things he is doing *intentionally*. For the purposes of knocking the US off its pedestal as leader of the free world.

Obama is hooked up with people who were loyal devoted supporters of the Soviet Union. In fact, Obama himself while in college in the '80s was a a supporter and defender of the USSR. And since Putin basically is out to restore the USSR and then-some with positions in the strategic oil/gas-rich Middle East, there's good reason to believe that this part of a grand coordinated scheme. Putin and Obama secretly are in cahoots.

[little jeremiah]

And 0b0la commutes sentences of hundreds of dangerous criminals, and the DOJ wants non-citizens, queers of every kind, wymmyn and FELONS to be LEOs. IOW, brownshirts.

I am totally sick of the boogieman “EEEEEEEEEVIL Putin” I could puke. What government is arming, training, funding and IMPORTING Islamic jihad? Russia or the US?

What government is toppling regimes they don’t like, resulting in ISLAMIC JIHAD, chaos, violence and huge deaths? Russia or the US?

[little jeremiah]

HINT:

It’s not Russia.

[plain talk]

We have no reason to go to war with Syria. None. Zero. This is wag the dog stuff.

[little jeremiah]

You are blind as a bat.

0bola is hooked up with Islamic jihad, not the ghost of the USSR. The US is more communist now that modern Russia.

[ETL]

I am totally sick of the boogieman “EEEEEEEEEVIL Putin” I could puke. What government is arming, training, funding and IMPORTING Islamic jihad? Russia or the US?

You apparently missed this from earlier...

Aug 2015

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Russian build-up in Syria part of secret deal with Iran's Quds Force leader

September 11, 2015
Jennifer Griffin, Lucas Tomlinson
FoxNews.com

As the Pentagon warily eyes a Russian military build-up in Syria, Western intelligence sources tell Fox News that the escalated Russian presence began just days after a secret Moscow meeting in late July between Iran's Quds Force commander - their chief exporter of terror - and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Fox News has learned Quds head Qassem Soleimani and Putin discussed such a joint military plan for Syria at that meeting, an encounter first reported by Fox News in early August. ..."

The Quds Force is the international arm of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, involved in exporting terrorism to Iran’s proxies throughout the Middle East including Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen. ..."

Officials who have monitored the build-up say they've seen more than 1,000 Russian combatants - some of them from the same plainclothes Special Forces units who were sent to Crimea and Ukraine. Some of these Russian troops are logistical specialists and needed for security at the expanding Russian bases.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/09/11/russian-build-up-in-syria-part-secret-deal-with-irans-quds-force-leader/
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Pro-Hezbollah Paper: Russia, Iran, Syria, Hezbollah Form Alliance

Sept 23, 2015

A prominent pro-Hezbollah newspaper in Lebanon reported Tuesday that Russia and the terrorist organization have formed an alliance and will fight together in Syria. "The parties to the alliance are the states of Russia, Iran, Syria, and Iraq, with Lebanon's Hezbollah as the fifth party,"

Al-Akhbar Editor in Chief Ibrahim al-Amin wrote. The pact would be called the "4+1 alliance", a pun based on the P5+1 that negotiated the nuclear deal with Iran. Hezbollah is a proxy of Iran based in Lebanon and Moscow has been working with Tehran to save Bashar al-Assad's regime, even sending men and weapons to Syria.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2015/09/22/report-russia-partners-with-hezbollah.html