By Ronald Bleier.
On October 9, 2015 it appeared to blogger Moon of Alabama (MoA) that the US was giving up on its war against Syria due to Russian determination to employ heavy duty military force in support of Assad. The next day, MoA reported that Obama is, instead, doubling down, risking war with Russia.
The person who told the Saudis to deliver 500 TOW missiles to Syria ASAP was likely CIA chief Brennan. He also ordered to plan for attacks on the Russian base.So instead of a calming down and cooperating with Russia to fight the Islamic State the Pentagon was told to shorten its program and to hand out weapons to everyone who asks. The CIA is feeding more weapons to its mercenaries via its Gulf proxies and is planning for direct attacks on Russians.The war on Syria, and now also on Russia, is unlikely to end in the near future. With the U.S. throwing more oil into the fire the war will burn not only in Syria but in every other country around it
Ruthless Obama? Yes, he’s been ruthless since the third day of his administration in January 2009 when he launched his first drones strikes on West Waziristan. But reckless? Up to now he’s only been reckless with the lives and homelands of foreigners. But to let Brennan loose on Syria, and allow the U.S. to escalate the proxy war with Russia is cause for concern about a recklessness that we haven’t seen before.
Up to now Obama seemed to be content with winning the domestic public relations war attacking Assad and Putin, while covertly arming ISIS, al-Nusra, the Free Syrian Army and all the other jihadist factions. His agenda has not been to topple Assad, but to keep the war going indefinitely. But with this new escalation the administration now seems to be ready fight Russia on more level terms.
Hopefully Obama will maintain the flexibility to pull back from red lines that shouldn’t be crossed. In that case, the only ones who will suffer will be millions of Syrians and Iraqis and Turks, etc.,. – and hundreds of millions of Europeans who will continue to be flooded with a continuing mass of refugees.
At his next press conference, reporters might like to ask what the president thinks will be the effect on the world economy and polity of the continuing unrest, destabilization and suffering his policies have been causing.
Update
MoA (10.12.15) published evidence – a photo of a downed drone — of U.S. special forces operating in South Syria, in contravention of international law.
MoA concludes on an optimistic note citing Russian plans to triple its daily sorties in support of several thousand new fighters from Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq and Lebanon in support of Assad. He feels this ought to be enough to expel “the intruders from South Syria.”
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