US focusing on (having Israel) forcibly remove Assad
With the United States stymied at the UN by Russian and Chinese vetoes, the Obama administration is now focusing on removing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad by force. And guess who the only ally participating in a military operation is likely to be.Administration officials have been in talks with officials in Turkey and Israel over how to manage a Syrian government collapse. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta is headed to Israel in the next several days to meet with Israeli defense counterparts, following up on a visit last week by President Obama’s national security adviser Thomas E. Donilon, in part to discuss the Syrian crisis.If you read the whole thing, you will see that is the only place in the entire article that talks about actual use of military force and not just providing technical assistance to selected rebels. Hmmm.
The White House is now holding daily high-level meetings to discuss a broad range of contingency plans — including safeguarding Syria’s vast chemical weapons arsenal and sending explicit warnings to both warring sides to avert mass atrocities — in a sign of the escalating seriousness of the Syrian crisis following a week of intensified fighting in Damascus, the capital, and the killing of Mr. Assad’s key security aides in a bombing attack.
The administration has had regular talks with the Israelis about how Israel might move to destroy Syrian weapons facilities, administration officials said. The administration is not advocating such an attack, the officials said, because of the risk that it would give Mr. Assad an opportunity to rally support against Israeli interference.
Labels: Alawite, Barack Hussein Obama, Bashar al-Assad, CIA, IDF, Syrian uprising
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:54 PM
4 Comments:
Israel needs to tell Obama to go pound sand. It's better for Israel for Syria's situation to not be resolved and continue in this slow grinding bloody African style low intensity war.
In other words, they want Israel do the work and take the blame, while in the event of heaven-forbid sustaining casualties, Israel will be in no position to refuse the world imposing their agenda on behalf of the muslim arabs.
Wonder if this is related to the proposed plan from a while back where Israel accepts “Alawite refugees” into the Golan?
Great, when not blaming the jooz for entangling his administration in a war with Tehran, O needs Israel to pull his Syrian chestnuts out of the fire? And then they'll blame Israel immediately, as day follows night, as the next sentence qualifies the previous with "it would give Assad an opportunity to rally support against Israeli interference"
The believability factor of anything coming out of the White House puzzle palace is zero to begin with. But how about Israel wait until Obama learns not to bite the hand that feeds him.
Great, when not blaming the jooz for entangling his administration in a war with Tehran, O needs Israel to pull his Syrian chestnuts out of the fire? And then they'll blame Israel immediately, as day follows night, as the next sentence qualifies the previous with "it would give Assad an opportunity to rally support against Israeli interference"
The believability factor of anything coming out of the White House puzzle palace is zero to begin with. But how about Israel wait until Obama learns not to bite the hand that feeds him.
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