[Iran Press TV] War hawks in Washington are using the beheading of two American journalists by ISIL Death Eaters in Syria as a pretext to take military action against Syrian government forces, an author and analyst in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... says.
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Obama (is) setting America up for getting into another war to complete what he tried to do when he began the Syrian war around March of 2011. He wants Assad ousted. He wants a pro-Western stooge government replacing it
I started writing "even Obama can't be [that dumb]", but...
[NYDAILYNEWS] Finally, some good news out of the White House on the anti-terror front: The administration confirmed that U.S. air power killed the leader of the Al Qaeda franchise in Somalia.
Among its virtues, the strike had a clarity that has escaped President B.O. in his attempt to figure out what to do about the rampaging barbarians of ISIS since he authorized limited assaults from above to protect the Yazidis from genocide.
Saving the Yazidis was purely a humanitarian mission, the White House said early last month.
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Let me be clear. Yes, Plugs is a loser, but he's my loser. His bid for the presidency takes me off the hook. I must support Plug's nomination over the Beest!
WASHINGTON Clare Lopez looks more like the prototypical all-American mother she is than the highly trained government CIA operative she was for 20 years.
Sitting across the table at a Washington eatery, the somewhat petite, charming blonde with a friendly and engaging smile was generally soft-spoken but often emphatic in delivery, especially while unloading a bombshell analysis that turned the common understanding of U.S. foreign policy on its head.
According to the former CIA operative, President Obamas plan for the Middle East is just what Osama bin Laden wanted: removing U.S. troops and putting the jihadis in power.
Lopez spent two decades in the field as a CIA operations officer; was an instructor for military intelligence and special forces students; has been a consultant, intelligence analyst and researcher within the defense sector; and has published two books on Iran. She currently manages the counterjihad and Shariah programs at the Center for Security Policy, run by Frank Gaffney, former assistant secretary of defense for international security policy during the Reagan administration.
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WND asked why the Obama administration would do something, were it known, that would be widely perceived as opposed to the best interest of the U.S Clare, we have been asking the same thing for a long time too.
Herewith one of those AyPee opinion pieces disguised as news reportage.
[IsraelTimes] The US and its allies are trying to hammer out a coalition to push back the Islamic State group in Iraq. But any serious attempt to destroy the holy warriors or even seriously degrade their capabilities means targeting their infrastructure in Syria.
That, however, is far more complicated. If it launches Arclight airstrikes against the group in Syria, the US runs the risk of unintentionally strengthening the hand of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs... , whose removal the West has actively sought the past three years. Uprooting the Islamic State group, which has seized roughly a third of Syria and Iraq, may potentially open the way for the Syrian army to fill the vacuum.
The alternative would be to finally get serious about arming the mainstream Western-backed rebels fighting to topple Assad. But there is a reason the administration of President Barack Obama Jedi mind meld... has been deeply reluctant to throw its weight behind them.
The relatively moderate rebel factions fighting in Syria are in tatters. There are no secular groups, and the strongest factions are Islamic groups, many of which work with al-Qaeda's official branch in Syria, the Nusra Front.
The Nusra Front, which has somewhat dropped from international headlines
Not here at Rantburg, but apparently AyPee took their eye off the ball, and therefore so did their clients...
because of the Islamic State group's exceeding brutality,
"If it bleeds, it leads," our intrepid journalist added, sotto voce. "What is one to do?"
. is on the US list of terrorist groups and is still very active.
It and other rebels recently seized the Quneitra border crossing between Syria and Israel's Golan Heights, taking 45 United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... peacekeepers hostage. It was also among a group of holy warriors that recently overran a Lebanese border town and is holding several Lebanese soldiers and coppers captive.
While the US and its allies are now arming Kurdish peshmerga fighters in Iraq against the Islamic State group, Syrian rebels complain they are largely on their own, battling both the holy warriors and the tyranny of Assad.
The Syrian opposition and many Syria observers are convinced that the rapid rise of the Islamic State group is a result of the US having let the Syrian conflict fester for so long.
Obama kicked up a storm of criticism late last month when he said "we don't have a strategy yet" for dealing with the Islamic State group in Syria.
"It is very important from my perspective that when we send our pilots in to do a job, that we know that this is a mission that's going to work, that we're very clear on what our objectives are, what our targets are," Obama said.
His statement epitomizes the caution that many say has been at the heart of US foreign policy on Syria for the past three years. For better or for worse, Obama has avoided wading into the Syria mud, resisting pressure to directly arm the rebels in part because of fears the weapons would only end up in bully boys' hands.
Last year, the US threatened to bomb Assad's forces following a deadly chemical weapons attack blamed on his government. It backed away at the last minute. Though he had to give up his chemical weapons stockpile, an emboldened Assad made significant advances against outgunned rebels in key areas, particularly around the capital, Damascus.
Members of the B.O. regime have said they recognize the need to address the Syrian side of the equation. While meeting with NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... foreign and defense ministers on possible action in Iraq, US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... said there are obviously "implications about Syria in this."
A senior B.O. regime official said Thursday that the US wanted to establish a credible ground force in Syria by training more moderate rebels before taking military action there.
The US signaled back in June that it hopes to enlist moderate Syrian opposition fighters in the battle against bully boy bully boys. Obama sent Congress a $500 million request for a Pentagon-run program that would significantly expand previous covert efforts to support rebels.
The request is still pending.
Still, such a program faces the same questions hanging over US policy the past three years -- how to distinguish "moderate" rebels from others in an increasingly radical landscape and how to ensure weapons only reach those groups.
Airstrikes alone would likely do little to truly defeat the Islamic State if there is no force on the ground to seize territory as the snuffies retreat. Western leaders have categorically rejected the notion of partnering up with Assad, whom they accuse of committing war crimes on his own people.
So that means greater coordination with rebel factions.
"Unless such groups are able to capitalize on any Arclight airstrikes against the Islamic State in Syria, the Syrian armed forces may be able to fill the vacuum," said Torbjorn Soltvedt, a senior analyst at the British risk analysis firm Maplecroft.
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A senior B.O. regime official said Thursday that the US wanted to establish a credible ground force in Syria by training more moderate rebels before taking military action there.
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Methinks Washington spends too much time trying to distinguish between various terrorist groups by asking questions such as "Is ISIS more evil than AQ, etc?" Seems like a waste of time. The terrorists may distinguish between Sunni and Shia but they all seem to be united in their hatred of the West--particularly Israel and the U.S.
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Think Berlin bombing, think fire bombing Tokyo, think Leipzig, for goodness sakes, will someone teach our leaders about total war??? Who gives a damn about the people of Syria? We are so worried about the poor little muzzies in muzzieland that we are willing to allow out nation to fall as to not hurt one puppy.
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That, however, is far more complicated No its not, it is very simple. They all want us dead, every leader in Syria wants to see the US fall. We have to get over our 10=960's everyone needs a hug crap and burn their cities to the ground.
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[DAWN] The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... Governor's Secretariat may have taken a step after decades to hold political agents of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) accountable for their expenditure yet the long-awaited move is ineffective so far as the proposed monitoring system exists on paper only.
For long, the duty on millions of rupees worth of goods entering Fata daily hasn't been open to audit.
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[DAWN] Whatever the reality maybe, making up and breaking up is not something I associate with the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain.
With their grim beards and demeanour, they seem more like the staying together sort, not interested in indulging in petty jealousies. Fights about who said what and when, and who is right or wrong are the culprits of ending things, divorce and such.
It was this perception that was challenged recently when one part of the Taliban split off from the other portion and formed a new group. The "original" Taliban, as they can be called now, used to be led by the infamous Mullah Fazlullah
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[DAWN] WEEKS into a crisis and after many rounds of negotiations between the government and the PTI, the intransigence of both sides is striking. The PTI chief Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight... has publicly once again declared that his party will not leave Constitution Avenue until Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... resigns -- a claim that could be true, but may also have something to do with keeping the pressure on the PML-N negotiators. Meanwhile,
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[DAWN] PAKISTAN has spent 34 out of its 68 years, or half its life, in internal political instability defined as regime instability, political emergencies and constitutional deadlocks. Long-term instability in Pakistain has been significantly higher than in East Asia and post-Partition India. The difference between Pakistain and India is large enough to make one wonder whether long-term instability may provide a significant part of the explanation for the recent divergence in growth.
The politics of the high state has played out as a zero-sum game where the acquisition of power by one actor or a set of actors has not resulted in a 'stable acquisition of power'. Contrary to resulting in revolutionary 'change,' episodes of instability have typified persistent institutional and elite conflicts. Evidence shows that the years of political instability have been marginally higher under authoritarian rule, suggesting that reversion to this form of rule is not a panacea. However, ars longa, vita brevis... a significant portion of the life of democratic regimes has also been spent managing instability. The pressing question today is what are the elements of a political compact that can catalyse the transition to a 'stable' democratic state?
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Well, he said he was going to build a coalition. Bet no one stateside expected he meant an Islamic (strife ridden) coalition and not with our usual, traditional and historically effective coalition.
"We’re going to have to train the military there more capably. We’ve got to do more effective diplomatic work to eliminate the schism between Sunni and Shia that has been fueling so much of the violence in Syria, in Iraq. And so we put together a plan that is compatible with the kind of work that we’re doing now."
I heard this on Meet the Press and had to Google the quote later coz I was like "my ears just lied to me".
Of all the monumentally, egostistically STUPID things I have ever heard come out of the mouth of this POSOTUS; this may be the most delusional. Just by shining the light of his countenance on the antagonists, a schism which has existed for 1350 years will miraculously be healed.
This msut be the "Theatrical" past of the job he alluded to on the same show. Aye, the theatre of the absurd.
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As per #3, CNBC AM = it appears that US Allies, including Muslim Govts-States, will want the US to "take the lead" in any organized Coalition agz the ISIS.
IIUC its still read, MORE THAN DRONES ANDOR LIMITED US MANNED AIRTSRIKES I.E. THEY WANT US BOOTS ON THE GROUND.
* JAPAN TIMES > ARAB LEAGUE CHIEF [Nabil Elarabi]URGES MEMBERS TO CONFRONT ISLAMIC STATE [ISIS/ISIL] "MILITARILY AND POLITICALLY".
* GROONG > [FarsNews] GENERAL SAYS IRAN "WORLD'S NUMBER THREE CHOPPER POWER".
Iran = #4 iff the International Community underestimates its.
TIME FOR OWG GLOBALIST-DESIRED "CO-SUPERPOWER" = "MAHANIST", NUKE-WANNABE RISING IRAN TO PROVE THIS STATEMENT TO GLOBALIST OBAMA BY DEV + USING ITS MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX TO PRODUCE POTENT ATTACK HELOS IN ORDER TO FIGHT THE ISIS ALL AROUND THE MIDDLE EAST + BEYOND???
As Govt-Politics, Economy + Geopol/MilPOl ambition go hand in hand.
versus
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > IN AMERLI, AN UNUSUAL [US-Iran] ALLIANCE DEFEATED ISLAMIC RADICALS, DONT' COUNT ON IT LASTING - WASHINGTON POST.
* SAME > IRAN'S ZARIF: US NOT SERIOUS ABOUT FIGHTING ISIL TERRORISTS - PRESSTV.
[Iran Press TV] Leaders of the United States and Israel are "guilty of war crimes" and need to be prosecuted and "rot away in a jail," says activist and former US Marine Kenneth O'Keefe.
The US administration's concern over the Israeli plans to grab 1,000 acres of Paleostinian land in the West Bank is "another stage of the play" and "doesn't mean anything," said O'Keefe, who led the "human shield action to Iraq" during the 2003 US invasion and was a passenger on Mavi Marmara, one of the six Gazoo-bound ships raided by Israel on May 31, 2010.
The Israeli media report that bigwigs in the B.O. regime have sent "sharply worded" letters to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, expressing "deep concern" about the expropriation announcement.
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O'Keefe bears a striking resemblance to former Survivor star Richard Hatch. Just saying....
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[Iran Press TV] War hawks in Washington are using the beheading of two American journalists by ISIL 
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Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[DAWN] PAKISTAN has spent 34 out of its 68 years, or half its life, in internal political instability defined as regime instability, political emergencies and constitutional deadlocks. Long-term instability in Pakistain has been significantly higher than in East Asia and post-Partition India. The difference between Pakistain and India is large enough to make one wonder whether long-term instability may provide a significant part of the explanation for the recent divergence in growth.
