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Obama To Authorize Weapons Training Of Syrian "Rebels"
This will end well. President Obama is, according to WSJ, close to authorizing the US military to train "moderate" Syrian rebels. The move - clearly expanding Washington's role in the conflict and a subtle side-swipe at Putin - is aimed at providing a seemingly arbitrary group of rebels with weapons training to fight against both Bashar al-Assad's regime's army as well as Al-Qaeda-linked groups. One quick question - how will Obama determine who is 'moderate' and who is full Al-Qaeda-tard?
A new military training program, if implemented, would supplement a small train-and-equip program led by the Central Intelligence Agency which Mr. Obama authorized a year ago.
U.S. officials said the new military program would represent a significant expansion of Washington's public efforts. U.S. officials don't discuss the CIA's limited training program because it is covert.
Only supporting the moderates - not the real crazies?
"The president will make clear his intention to expand our support to the moderate Syrian operation and increase our support to Syria's neighbors, who are dealing with the terrorist threats emanating from the situation Assad has created in Syria," a senior administration official said.
The proposed military training mission has been the subject of a nearly yearlong Obama administration debate pitting top American diplomats seeking leverage to pressure Mr. Assad against Pentagon leaders wary of open-ended commitments that risk deepening U.S. involvement in another messy Middle Eastern conflict.
Defense officials said it was unclear when training, which would be undertaken by U.S. special-operations forces, would get under way, citing obstacles that include how the Pentagon will vet prospective rebels for the program.
We are sure they will figure it out?
And here comes the Middle East pressure...
The move toward deeper U.S. involvement reflects a growing realization within the White House that more needs to be done to build up the capabilities of a proxy force inside Syria capable of challenging al Qaeda. Washington increasingly fears al Qaeda's network of foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq will become capable of threatening U.S. allies in the region, including Jordan.
The move also comes in response to mounting pressure on the White House from Middle Eastern allies who say Mr. Obama's reluctance to support moderate fighters has allowed al Qaeda-linked groups to now dominate the opposition.
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The Western-backed Free Syrian Army has been fighting a two-front war, against Mr. Assad and his allies on one side, and against al Qaeda and its allies on the other, but commanders say they have received scant support from the U.S.
During his visit, Mr. Jarba met with Mr. Obama and top officials at the White House and the State Department. Mr. Jarba also requested a meeting with Mr. Hagel, but a senior defense official said the Pentagon chief's schedule at the time was booked. "There was not a concerted effort not to meet with him," the senior defense official said. "It was a scheduling thing."
But...
Administration lawyers have raised other legal concerns about the proposed military program, holding up its final approval, officials said.
And...
Jordanian officials have privately told their American counterparts that they are worried a large overt training program on their territory could prompt the Assad regime or al Qaeda to retaliate against the Hashemite Kingdom.
This has always worked so well in the past and we are sure this administration will execute flawlessly. One quick question... will "Hijacking airplanes for disgruntled Al Qaeda operatives 101", pardon, Syrian rebels, be on the curriculum?
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To get Obama on Rushmore You would need room for TWO faces.
So,
the US government is employing/training/funding mercenaries/'good' terrorists
to overthrow foreign governments.
All legally, and for the most 'humanitarian' motives of course.
Because when done by the good guys, pipelines, petrodollars, profits for death merchants and banksters,
and puffery for militarists and arrogant politicians
are irrelevant.
So they say.
Often.
NATO needs their gas from Qatar, they have to up the anty, Italy and France only have a year left of domestic oil / gas before they go begging to Putin for MOAR reserves.
If anything will cause a WW3, it will be the actions within Syria.
And The only way Israel exports its ample reserves is...
maybe they'll teach them how to fly jet airliners
In other news, the Syrian ambassador and CIA chief just resigned.
Honest to God
What's it gonna take to pry Cheney, Kissenger, and Brezinski out of our ass?
Yea, teach them how to kick the shit out of the other guys, just like we did in Afganistan.
So my question is, what is the real gain?
What does the west win by interfering in Syria?
There sure as hell is some kind of gain, so please zerohedgers, any clues?
this is not what it seems.
mossad,cia and mi6 have been providing these services already in jordan and turkey for the last 16 months.
employing companies like serco,g4s britam defense and all the other psychotic israeli and us security firms.
this is for manpad or other weapon system training.
America was not founded for that reason, as we well know, tony. And, now, we are in an epic struggle of free enterprise capitalism vs. world socialism. And, frankly, one system will win out and the other will fail. In this, Lenin was correct when he said there could be no coexistence, that either capitalism or socialism would emerge triumphant.
The significant difference between 2014 and 1917 is that the base of world aggression has shifted from the Soviets to American policy makers – but the aggressors are the same Bolsheviks
He shitball isn't it your break time. I hear the food is OK at the Pentagramagon.
You're up tough guy. If you've got a point to make, now's the time to make it.
Hey JR,
All your references are to an edifice, a construct. Using dialectic and failed history straining to conform a world view to a machine that first identifys then kills. Having killed it must, to maintain the illusion of justification, cleave to its worn out cathedral to death and murder. It finds people like you, true believers who puff themselves up like an erection because it is the only tool they understand. To move from an erection to a gun is an easy adaptation for these pin heads such as yourself. And, no, I'm not a tough guy but I am awake.
I’m glad you’re finally awake. And you’re right, you don’t sound tough.
Before answering next time, pick up a copy of Carroll Quigley’s book, Tragedy and Hope, and nail down his points on the world’s secret power structure and its plot to destroy the United States. (Hint: it's not theory.)
Bolsheviks? What Bolsheviks? The only Bolsheviks left anywhere in the world are in coffeeshops near US university campuses. They aren't even on campus. Now, if you're one of those who thinks Obama is a Bolshevik, your whole vocabulary and use of the lexicon are so messed up it's going to be hard for anyone to understand what you're trying to say.
This is about Empire, hard, cold and simple. Nothing going on in the world today would puzzle a well-informed Roman citizen of 2000 years ago, once he understood about technological updates to energy and mineral usage. There's no ideology involved here, just power. Any ideology is post-hoc; invented after the fact to justify the use of and pursuit of power.
Who are the Bolsheviks? You can identify them for their beliefs and actions. As influential educator and Soviet Union admirer and apologist, Dr. George Counts, put it, for their support of “a coordinated, planned and socialized economy…a new age of collectivism.”
Are you trying to tell me that Marxism is dead in America?
Surely, you recognize that the names are changed as rapidly as the seasons, one day they are a liberal, the next a progressive, the next day an agent for change. I think it’s better to stick with who they really are: Bolsheviks,Trotskyites, Communists.
While they frantically try to rewrite history to cover their tracks back to Communist Russia, claiming credit for a victory over communism, they always criticize Hitler but never Stalin. Are you not familiar with the leadership of our universities?
In None Dare Call It Treason, John Stormer writes: “True history can unmask them and thwart them. If they succeed in keeping Americans confused about what really happened in the past, leftists of various persuasions can continue working to move the United States and the world toward their long held goal of world socialism and a ‘new world order.’
“It wasn’t Red military might or ‘the will of the people’ that caused China to fall to communism. The suffering in China, which continues today, resulted from dreamers in the U.S. State Department. Soviet tanks didn’t conquer Cuba for the communists. The Cuban tragedy was orchestrated by people with names and faces in Washington, D.C.”
It was new-world-order advocate, Henry Kissinger, who sat down with Chairman Mao in 1970 to discuss opening up China back when America was at the peak of her power, and it was iin the 1980s that the international bankers proceeded to export America’s manufacturing base and capital to China, i.e., America’s strength, to Communist ideologues.
And in 2011, as the Communist Party of China confidently celebrated its 90th anniversary, it was Kissinger back in Beijing passing the baton of global leadership on to his communist hosts; it was “the great statesman” telling his hosts that the transition from one system to another would likely take another 30 years. But it looks as if the Fed/IMF/EU banker consortium has greatly shortened its time frame for its one-world socialist state, for Van Rompuy's world governance.
Al Qaeda and others like Ansar Al Sharia that killed our Ambassador in Benghazi plus many more have the same parent funding sources and therefore follow the desires of those funding groups of which, until we got in, were two. Saudi Arabia and Qatar. These are all Sunni tribes and related! They are the ones that bombed America at the World trade Center, killed our people in the Boston marathon and killed our Ambassador in Benghazi!
These are the Sunni groups that are spreading violence in Europe and Britain! You should read about that chaos.
Their groups have killed and slaughtered hundreds of thousands in Africa.
We are going to arm them? WHY? Syria's leader is a criminal and a murderer but, he's never funded attacks on America!!
THESE GROUP HAVE!
Al Qaeda and others like Ansar Al Sharia that killed our Ambassador in Benghazi
bollocks
it was
mossad,mi6 and the cia you fucking tool
What's a moderate fighter? Sounds like they are training people to be confused. We'll call em moderate fighters. Maybe they are like DOT workers. Seen many a moderate DOT workers.
A moderate DOT worker is an exceptional one IMO. Good observation on the moderate fighter.
Neo-conservatives are in total control of US foreign policy and military policy. They are the same neo-cons who operated unber Bush, Clinton, Bush and Obama. Obama kept most, if not all, of the long term Washington neo-con team. The neo-cons in turn are linked to AIPAC and the Israeli Lobby, whose power is well documented.
What is good for Israel is their first concern. What is good for the military industrial/spy complex is their second concern.
Thus they love their profitable war on terror, at the same time the USA/Israel/Saudi Arabia are the worlds foremost supporters of Wahabi Islamic Terror based in Saudi Arabia. It was Saudi Arabians who were allowed to plan, train and carry out 9/11. The benefits to the neo-con moverment by 9/11 are beyond calculation.
In Syria, the USA has put out a world wide call to arms of Islamic Fundamentalists and Wahabists across the globe. This is what Libya was all about, so that the US could set up Libya as a terrorist base camp and supply base for the West's tame terrorists. The targets are well know Syria, lebanon and Russia.
CIA created Al-Qaeda and have found them very usefull in every respect to fullfill the needs of the neo-con agenda. This is nothing new. Obama is just another neo-con liar, criminal and killer. The US offensive in Ukraine yesterday is directed from Kiev by the CIA. I wonder, does anyone not think Syria is the same?
All points exactly correct, Jack. Unfortunately, all the Americans on board with these policies because they think it’s strengthening America’s position in the world (high tech intelligence, powerful military, subservient allies and resource hegemony) are only sacrificing their freedoms to a growing tyranny. In the end, they, too, will be slaves to the one-world socialist state, i.e., the final domino.
western agencies also fool gullible/desperate pakistanis into joining, too. northwest pakistan was a lot different before the 'militants' moved in. they used to have a small 'bollywood' in that area, and sell movie dvds at the bazaars. now, all of the movies at the bazaars are replaced by 'islamic propaganda' dvds; courtesy of western intelligence agencies.
The wars are not fought in Florida, or California or Kansas; they are fought in Ukraine and Syria. But the foundations for these wars are the ties to energy from the Saudis and political pressure from the Israelis.
And it is Neocons and warmongers such as John McCain who can’t sleep unless the American Empire is used for wrapping up world control.
These warmongers want the fight to spread to Georgia, to Eastern Ukraine and constantly to Syria. The bottom line is always defining the border and influence of the Russian Federation. This is because the current power in Russia is Putin and he will not have a compromise on Syria or Ukraine that gives the bankers one more domino.
In Ukraine, CIA Director John “Brennan came to plot war strategy. He wants Eastern Ukrainian freedom fighters eliminated. He wants them crushed… “ Ukraine is “the crown jewel” in Washington D.C.’s quest for “unchallenged global dominance” over all former Russian republics and Warsaw Pact nations. – Stephen Lendman, co-author of the Flashpoint in Ukraine: U.S. Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III.
The operative words: “Ukraine, Crimea, Syria, Israel, Iran, Putin, World War III, nuclear, the 76th Air Assault Division, wargames, the US Naval War College, Seals, NATO, South Ossetia, EMP.” – Bill Ryan, March 19, 2014
The face of the western attacks on Ukraine may be NATO and the EU but the real clout comes from the bankers and their oligarch economic vultures who know there are large, untapped deposits of gas and oil in western Ukraine. In November 2013, the Ukrainian government gave Chevron a 50-year-lease to tap these reserves in the west of Ukraine with Royal Dutch Shell signing a similar agreement. And the White House has allocated part of a $50 million package to facilitate energy development in Ukraine for private companies in the West, according to U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz.
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69621-Ukraine-Crimea-Syria-Israel-Iran-Putin-and-World-War-III
The radicals will just act polite, it worked for Elliot Roger
Job security for the MIC
Are these the same rebels we are arresting when they return home, or are they different rebels?
When the rebels rebel are they 'rebebels'?
Best Nobel Peace Prize President money can buy!
I watched "42" the recent movie about Jackie Robinson. I was crying at the end, but not for the reason you may think: the long hard struggle by black men, such as Robinson, to gain respect has culminated in a black president who has done a one-eighty from his representation of himself. Its verging on satanic. Why all the God damned killing and subterfuge?
He's paid well for following orders?
You stupid Americans.
As far as I can tell there are now four separate foriegn policy establishments in the United States. One, you have the Neo Con satrapy ensconsed at State. State runs it's own agenda, basically executing PNAC which, in essence, means relentless global destablisation, anywhere and by any means neccesary, whilst channeling profits and .gov slush to connected insiders of course. The White House has no input, and no control over State. Two, the CIA fiefdom (this is Bush territory). CIA is basically concerned with running their global Heroin, Cocaine and Arms empire. It's a legally protected mafia organization at this point more than anything. The White House has no input, and no control over CIA. Three, The Pentagon and Joint Chiefs. The Joint Chiefs have their own agendas certainly but the key point is... The White House has no input, and no control over the Joint Chiefs. Whether the military would blindly follow orders from Washington at this point is in serious question. Is Obama Commander in Chief in actuality... would anyone actually follow his orders if they dissagreed with them? Doubtful. It is rumored, and I find it believable, that Dempsy put the final kibosh (just said "No") on the administartion plans for the bombing and destruction of Syria. Fourth, is the administration itself. Not a whole lot of brain power here apparently (It is possible, difficult as it seems, that the Psaki woman is more goddamn annoying than Obama or Holder... with her preening hashtags and simpering pressers). This is where the reactionary, childish and utterly incomprehensible decisions are coming from. I.E. Justice announces arrest warrants for Chinese military officers while the Chinese head of state is meeting Putin and making an incredibly important trade pact. W. T. F. ??? The stupidity is now beyond belief... into fully absurd land. Who decided that the mixed rabble of thieves, rapists, jihadis, and junkies (The Free Syrian Armytm... How to take this seriously? ) would constitute a fighting force if they only had MOAR training? Your guess is as good as mine but... earth to White House... It's Over, Assad Won. Hezbollah won. The Real Syrian Army won. The Syrian People won. Syria will survive as a state.
Obama supports these butchers of civilians in Syria and the MSM refuses to reveal
take a gander at the pictures and vid
Saif Al-Adlubi tells of his miraculous escape to the Turkish village of Rehaniyeh from Syria. He was probably one of the few survivors who sounded the alarm on one of the gruesome systematic human extermination centers carried out by the Takfiri Jihadist group ISIS.
http://shoebat.com/2014/03/17/actual-literal-islamic-human-slaughterhouses-christians-discovered/
You could have typed it this way too.
Obama supports these butchers of Palestinians in Israel and the MSM refuses to reveal
WTF we'll support anyone who is for peace.
how stupid is that
you obviously did not look at the pictures or reports from Syria
it was us supporting terrorists groups that are Islamic from many of the Islam nations
also sponsored by Saudia Arabia
nothing to do with Israel, what a distortion.
This carnage is the result of the United States, over there and everywhere, stirring it up, constantly.
Wasn't this the precursor to Benghazi?
The enemy of my enemy is ... my government, which is my enemy. It gets confusing at times.
This has worked so well every other time we've done it.
TLDR; we've done this in every country in the "Axis of Evil" and consistently pick murderous despots thinking that "This time will be different."
Am I crazy to think that "mind your own fucking business" might be a better foreign policy?
If the government, time after time, keeps using the same flawed policy that produces other-than-intended results there is only one conclusion to make:
The policy isn't flawed. And the results are exactly what was intended, abhorrent as they are.
'Obama To Authorize Weapons Training Of Syrian "Rebels"'
The headline is inaccurate. It should be:
'Obama to Makes Weapons Training of Syrian "Rebels" Official'
I heard he was going to let SEC do the vet. I'm sure anyone who can hold a gun will b invited
Sewing terrorists in Syria so that the MIC can reap them later -It's amazing how brilliantly evil that plan is where they continually perpetuate terror in order to make themselves useful. This is why it is important that the dollar crashes, if only to provide a short measure of respite while the next asshole superpower rises to take our place.
community organizer shit for brains
American senator Richard Black, in a letter to Pres Assad, thanks Syrian Arab Army .
Richard H. "****" Black, Republican Senator in Virginia, wrote a letter to Bashar al-Assad, President of the Syrian Arab Republic. In his letter he praises the Syrian Arab Army´s efforts to protect Syria from terrorism and commends Assad´s and his father´s policy protecting religious minorities. He prays that the army will drive the terrorists from Syria and notices their detestableness and linkage to Al-Qaeda realizing they are those who attacked the World Trade Center in 2001.
http://www.usmessageboard.com/politics/356581-senator-black-s-letter-to-president-assad.html
Phony scandal. {s}