Dear Fellow Americans: Do You Have Any Idea What’s
Being Done In Your Name In Syria?
By WashingtonsBlog
November 06, 2015 "Information
Clearing House" - "Washingtonsblog"
- Americans have some vague understanding that the U.S. wants
Syria’s Assad to go, while Russia wants him to stay.
And Americans know that the U.S. “war against
ISIS” hasn’t done much, while the Russians have been pounding Syrian
targets with jets.
But Americans have no idea that the U.S. is
deploying fighter jets designed solely to engage in plane-to-plane
dogfighting … in order to
counter the Russians.
And we don’t understand that the U.S. is arming
the Syrian “rebels” with should-fired anti-aircraft weapons. As the
Wall Street Journal
reports:
The U.S. and its regional allies agreed
to increase shipments of weapons and other supplies to help
moderate Syrian rebels hold their ground and challenge the
intervention of Russia and Iran on behalf of Syrian
President Bashar al-Assad, U.S. officials and their
counterparts in the region said.
The deliveries from the Central
Intelligence Agency, Saudi Arabia and other allied spy services
deepen the fight between the forces battling in Syria, despite
President Barack Obama’s public pledge to not let the conflict
become a U.S.-Russia proxy war.
Saudi officials not only pushed for the
White House to keep the arms pipeline open, but also warned the
administration against backing away from a longstanding demand
that Mr. Assad must leave office.
In the past month of intensifying
Russian airstrikes, the CIA and its partners have increased the
flow of military supplies to rebels in northern Syria, including
of U.S.-made TOW antitank missiles, these officials said.
Those supplies will continue to increase in coming weeks,
replenishing stocks depleted by the regime’s expanded military
offensive.
An Obama administration official said the
military pressure is needed to push Mr. Assad from power.
“Assad is not going to feel any
pressure to make concessions if there is no viable opposition
that has the capacity, through the support of its partners, to
put pressure on his regime,” the
official said.
In addition to the arms the U.S.
has agreed to provide, Saudi and Turkish officials have renewed
talks with their American counterparts about allowing limited
supplies of shoulder-fire man-portable air-defense systems, or
Manpads, to select rebels. Those weapons could help target
regime aircraft, in particular those responsible for dropping
barrel bombs, and could also help keep Russian air power at bay,
the officials said.
Mr. Obama has long rebuffed such
proposals, citing the risk to civilian aircraft and fears they
could end up in the hands of terrorists. To reduce those
dangers, U.S. allies have proposed retrofitting the equipment to
add so-called kill switches and specialized software that would
prevent the operator from using the weapon outside a designated
area, said officials in the region briefed on the option.
U.S. intelligence agencies are concerned
that a few older Manpads may already have been smuggled into
Syria through supply channels the CIA doesn’t control.
(This comes a week after ISIS may have used a
Manpad to shoot down a Russian civilian airliner.)
Americans don’t know that sending Manpads into
Syria and trying to establish a no-fly zone is what
Al Qaeda leaders have been hoping for, and that ISIS and Al
Qaeda will
end up with all of the weapons which the U.S. sends to Syria.
Americans don’t know the history of American
regime change in Syria:
Americans don’t know that it was the “rebels” –
not the Syrian government – who
carried out the chemical weapons massacre in Syria.
Americans don’t know that U.S. backed rebels told
Christians, “Either
you convert to Islam or you will be beheaded.” Syrian rebels
slit the throat of a Christian man who refused to convert to Islam,
taunting his fiance by yelling: “Jesus didn’t come to save him!” A
former Syrian Jihadi says the rebels have a
“9/11 ideology”. Indeed, they’re literally
singing Bin Laden’s praises and celebrating the 9/11 attack.
Americans don’t know that the U.S. and its allies
are largely responsible for
creating ISIS, that U.S., Turkey and Israel have all
been
acting as ISIS’ air force, and that
influential American figures are calling for openly arming Al
Qaeda … and perhaps even ISIS.
Americans don’t know that Russia and China are
catching up to the U.S. military, and that this isn’t a mere
proxy war … but is
“one step closer” to all out war between the U.S. and Russia.
And Americans don’t know that history shows that
empires collapse when they overextend themselves militarily …
and fight one too many wars.
Postscript. Americans also don’t know how close
we’ve come to the worst-case scenario:
- We came very close to nuclear war
with Russia
numerous times in the past … and only the courage of a
handful of men to
disobey the
commands of their superiors saved the world
- In 1962, the head of the U.S. Air Force –
General Curtis LeMay – pushed president Kennedy to use the
“opportunity” to launch a nuclear war against Russia, and was
bitterly disappointed that Kennedy instead opted for peace. As
highly-regarded reporter David Talbot
said recently:
The military in this country and the
CIA thought that we could take, you
know, Castro out. During the Cuban missile crisis, they were
prepared to go to a nuclear war to do that.
President Kennedy thought people like Curtis LeMay, who was head
of the Air Force, General Curtis LeMay, was half-mad. He said,
“I don’t even see this man in my—you know, in my sight,” because
he was pushing for a nuclear confrontation with the Soviet
Union. And even years later, Curtis LeMay, after years after
Kennedy is dead, in an interview that I quote from in the book,
bitterly complains that Kennedy didn’t take this
opportunity to go nuclear over Cuba. So, President
Kennedy basically, I think, saved my life—I was 12 years old at
the time—saved a lot of our lives, because he did stand his
ground. He took a hard line against the national security people
and said, “No, we’re going to peacefully resolve the Cuban
missile crisis.”
- One of the world’s leading physicists (Michio
Kaku) revealed declassified plans for the U.S. to launch a
first-strike nuclear war against Russia in the
1987 book
To Win a Nuclear War: The Pentagon’s Secret War Plans.
The forward was written by the former Attorney General of the
United States, Ramsey Clarke
- American, Russian and other
experts warn that U.S. and Russian conflicts elsewhere could
lead to nuclear war
