WASHINGTON — For the first time in the four-year Syrian civil war, President Obama is beginning to execute a combined diplomatic and military approach to force President Bashar al-Assad to leave office and end the carnage.
As 50 Special Operations troops arrive in Syria to bolster the most effective opposition groups, the administration is gambling that Secretary of State John Kerry will have more leverage to push Russia, Iran and other players toward two objectives: a cease-fire to limit the cycle of killing and the establishment of a timeline for a transition of power.
But the task is enormous, given the number of nations and rebel groups operating at cross-purposes and the tiny size of the American force so far. Even senior members of the administration express doubts in private about whether the effort is sufficient.
WNU Editor: The Syrian conflict has been going on for years. The violence and war in Iraq has been going on for years. Sending 50 U.S. Special Forces soldiers into Syria and pushing for a diplomatic solution is not going to change the situation on the ground one iota. U.S. policy on Syria has now become nothing more but posturing, using certain allies to do the "dirty work", and when needed .... launching air strikes or doing a special ops on a target to show everyone that we are serious (especially to the U.S. public) .... when realistically .... in the Middle East no one is now believing the U.S. is serious at all.
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WNU Editor,
". in the Middle East no one is now believing the U.S. is serious at all."
Actually, in the ME people are very sure that the U.S. is serious,
- serious about toppling Assad,
- serious about keeping ISIS/Al Quida strong enough to keep Iraq, the Kurds and Syria weak and bleeding, but not strong enough to threaten the KSA,
- serious about spreading the conflict into Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt.
I was referring to the war against the Islamic State. But yes .... many in the Middle East are becoming convinced that the U.S. is the cause of much of the instability in the Middle East, and not someone that is trying to stop it.
Obama couldn't run a 2 house milk route.
http://www.almasdarnews.com/article/turkish-pm-says-ground-operations-against-isil-possible/
Here we go....
Thank you RRH for the link. I have to post more on what Turkey is doing.
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