'US To Announce Aerial Blockade On Syria' -- YNet News
US readies for possibility of intervention without UN resolution, Asharq Al-Awsat reports, citing US military official; plan to include humanitarian aid to Syrian refugees on Turkey's border.
The Pentagon is readying for the possibility of intervention in Syria, aiming to halt Syrian President Bashsar Assad's violent crackdown on protesters, the newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat reported Saturday, citing a US military offical.
According to the official, the intervention scenario calls for the establishment of a buffer zone on the Turkish border, in order to receive Syrian refugees. The Red Cross would then provide the civilians humanitarian aid, before NATO crews would arrive from Turkey and join the efforts.
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My Comment: With what assets? To successfully mount such an operation, you must have air force assets and equipment in the region to enforce it. But with America's aircraft carriers focused on Iran, and U.S. air bases only located in the Gulf and Turkey, even if the U.S. wanted to enforce an 'aerial blockade', the planes are just not there.
On top of that .... to conduct such an intervention without U.N. support .... hmmm .... that flies in the face of this White House and how it is always trying it's best to work with international coalitions and/or with the U.N.
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