Category Archives: Middle East

Syria: some sources indicate US strikes to begin within 24 hours

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Evil US vs President AssadAnd Greta Van Susteren is on early and extended.

I still say: going into Syria is completely unnecessary and wrong.  It will be a quagmire to be used against the United States.  I don’t see good things coming out of this for either the US or Israel.  Mostly, Mr Obama couldn’t care less about either one.

Syria AttackAssad knows we’re coming, he reads newspapers too.  Whatever strategic materiel may have existed in specific places — are now quite likely moved.  Just as Syria received the WMD and gas from Iraq under Saddam Hussein.  Where, for example, do you think Syria acquired the gas for their most recent play time?

When you broadcast a time and a date, Mr Obama, then people will respond.  You are apparently transparent in your transnational attacks, but opaque when dealing with domestic issues.  How nice to know.

And smacking Syria, roughly a week after the event, is like walking up to your dog — a week after he shat in your boots — and smacking him with a newspaper.  It’s pointless.

The dog doesn’t make the connection, nothing is learned, behavior isn’t corrected, and the dog begins to make plans to kill you in your sleep.

BZ

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Pentagon Shoots Down Kerry’s Syria Airstrike Plan

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120510-D-NI589-432There have been any number of movies portraying the American military as inept, bloodthirsty, bent on killing, incompetent, blundering, blithering idiots.

And frequently those adjectives are completely applicable to the civilian overlords of our military forces.  To wit, from Bloomberg.com:

Pentagon Shoots Down Kerry’s Syria Airstrike Plan

By Jeffrey Goldberg Jun 18, 2013 12:40 PM PT

Twenty years ago, in a debate over the war in Bosnia, Madeleine Albright, then the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, issued a challenge to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Colin Powell. Albright wanted the U.S. to confront an aggressive Serbia; Powell and the Pentagon were hesitant. Albright grew frustrated: “What’s the point of having this superb military that you’re always talking about if we can’t use it?” Albright asked. Powell later said that he thought Albright was going to give him an aneurysm.

An issue of the civilian federal government simply declaring that there will be faeries and unicorns issuing from the US military.

But the response from a US Army General, Martin Dempsey, who may actually possess an intact and full set of testicles?  Read on:

Dempsey informed Kerry that the Air Force could not simply drop a few bombs, or fire a few missiles, at targets inside Syria: To be safe, the U.S. would have to neutralize Syria’s integrated air-defense system, an operation that would require 700 or more sorties. At a time when the U.S. military is exhausted, and when sequestration is ripping into the Pentagon budget, Dempsey is said to have argued that a demand by the State Department for precipitous military action in a murky civil war wasn’t welcome.

As in: we did this before.  As in: you Blithering Idiots may want to re-think doing this again.

BZ

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How to do it?  Perhaps people could actually read Popular Mechanics.

Finally: NOT interfering in Syria is not inherent “Isolationism.”  I portray it as simple common sense.

Former Assistant Secretary of Defense K.T. McFarland said:

“The cardinal rule in Washington is that if you have two enemies fighting each other, do not try to step in and stop them.”

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Obama on Syria: cowardice, indecision or a head-fake?

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SyriaToday, we are not in Syria nor have we bombed.

I suspect because, primarily, the UK bowed out of this option.

Cameron’s nonbinding motion was defeated 285-272 and he conceded after the vote that “the British Parliament, reflecting the views of the British people, does not want to see British military action.”

So, is Mr Obama a coward, is it indecision or is it a head-fake?

BZ

 

 

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Truth illustrated by an ever-expanding list:

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Syria has now mixed its military Sarin gas components:

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Egypt is crumbling.

And now Syria is actively mixing Sarin gas components and loading chemical weapons into aerial explosive devices: artillery shells.

From WorldNewsNBC.com:

The military has loaded the precursor chemicals for sarin, a deadly nerve gas, into aerial bombs that could be dropped onto the Syrian people from dozens of fighter-bombers, the officials said. 

As recently as Tuesday, officials had said there was as yet no evidence that the process of mixing the “precursor” chemicals had begun. But Wednesday, they said their worst fears had been confirmed: The nerve agents were locked and loaded inside the bombs.

Obama decided to inject us into Libya.  Into Egypt.  Into Yemen.  And now plans to inject troops — American troops — into Syria.

Bombshells filled with chemicals can be carried by Syrian Air Force fighter-bombers, in particular Sukhoi-22/20, MiG-23 and Sukhoi-24 aircraft. In addition, some reports indicate that unguided short-range Frog-7 artillery rockets may be capable of carrying chemical payloads.

In terms of longer-range delivery systems, Syria has a few dozen SS-21 ballistic missiles with a maximum range of 72 miles; 200 Scud-Bs, with a maximum range of 180 miles; and 60 to 120 Scud-Cs, with a maximum range of 300 miles, all of which are mobile and are capable of carrying chemical weapons, according U.S. intelligence officials.

Why would the US become involved in Syrian issues?  From GlobalResearch:

ANKARA: NATO military experts have selected sites for the deployment of at least three Patriot air defense systems along Turkey’s border with Syria, local media reported on Monday.

NATO member Turkey formally requested Patriot missiles from the military alliance after weeks of talks with NATO allies about how to shore up security on its 900-kilometer (560 mile) border. Syria is believed to have several hundred surface-to-surface missiles capable of carrying chemical warheads.

And who or what would buttress those missile batteries?  That’s correct: American soldiers.

Not by the hundreds.  Potentially by the thousands.

And Leftists/Progressives have the temerity to think George Bush was a war monger?

BZ

 

 

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