Posted on 10/13/2016 8:13:34 PM PDT by tcrlaf
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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YES... Without a doubt.
The Saudi's and Qatari's have paid them HUGE amounts of money to buy Syria, and they expect returns for that cash, even if Hillary loses.
Wag The Pussy.
Broadcasting to the enemy that you may take action. How stupid is that?
That’s perfect.
Peace Laureate Ping!!!
"No CALICO cat..? Meh, we have to make do with a white one, whaddya gonna do..."
The goal will be to destroy Syria further, create more Muslim refugees for the USA and Europe to take in, arm more Al Qaeda off-shoots, and advance the interests of the Saudis as much as possible.
Obama would be a blue ribbon idiot to start an open war with Russia. I think even he knows that. Although he may want to muddy the relations up a bit before he leaves, especially if Trump wins. This would be Obama’s version of ransacking the White House on his last night as president, and leaving a smoking, stinking mess for someone else to mop up. His hope being, that the following president will be so encumbered by all the loose ends and frayed edges of diplomacy, that their first term will be disasterous for at least the first two years.
So disasterous, that aides would be calling Obama back to the White House for advice on how to resolve it. ‘Ya’ll still need me, don’tcha?”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3480127/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3480160/posts
Has Congress voted to go to war?
This sentence makes absolutely no sense. Turkey has been HELPING the Islamic State, funding them, and profiting from their oil sales. And the Kurds and Turks are enemies. Obozo and the trangendered generals he has appointed has absolutely no clue.
Putin is not going to let Obama fight against Russia via proxy “rebels”.
The Russians are ready to teach Obama a lesson. Putin is not going to let Obama leave office without first giving Obama a huge military humiliation.
God bless our troops in harms way, trapped between these two megalomaniacs.
This is madness. This is all about the election , We have no business stopping Assad and the Russians from killing G Damned ISIS!! Who gives a crap. Hell no we will not go and this would drive millions of mellinials our way. So go ahead. If you are military— get out. The media is in on this . You can see the propaganda ploy but let me warn you bastards— NOBODY GIVES A CRAP ABOUT SYRIA!! Go ASSAD!! GO RUSSIANS!!! Call when it’s over and tell us how it came out but keep these trojan horse time bombs away from our Christian nation!!! ( 83%) GO TRUMP!! WAG THE DOG OBAMA! It will blow you up bad politically.
I wish it was just a movie.
SMH.
We trained the “moderate rebels “ for $500 million . There were 15 . They were all butchered like pigs in 1 week. Do we get our money back? Nope. This is total madness. Where is the Congress? Where is that weasel RYno?
Congress!? The one that put this pussy in charge?
They will burn this world down before they lose control of it. We are in deep, deep trouble. There are bad hombres driving this ship.
I swear this is what that “anonymous” video said would happen that I watched yesterday about Bill Clinton and Epstien
Does this mean that they will review the strongly-worded letter then, or that they will begin to draft one?
The answer is simple, GTFO of there!
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