" ... behind the lofty rhetoric about solidarity and the images of heroic rescuers rushing in to save lives is an agenda that aligns closely with the forces from Riyadh to Washington clamoring for regime change. Indeed, The Syria Campaign has been pushing for a no-fly zone in Syria that would require at least “70,000 American servicemen” to enforce, according to a Pentagon assessment, along with the destruction of government infrastructure and military installations. There is no record of a no-fly zone being imposed without regime change following —which seems to be exactly what The Syria Campaign and its partners want.
“For us to control all the airspace in Syria would require us to go to war against Syria and Russia. That’s a pretty fundamental decision that certainly I’m not going to make,” said Gen. Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee this month." Max Blumenthal
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Dunford should be careful if he wants to keep his job until retirement. John McCain immediately and angrily denied that that a NFZ in Syria would inevitably mean war with Russia.
I agree with Dunford.
The wall to wall R2P and Ziocon campaign to destroy the Government of Syria is in high gear. Unfortunately for the R2Pers, Government of Israel and Ziocons the rebels are losing the war. The Borgist press talk endlessly of air strikes in Aleppo as part of the propaganda meme, and do their best to ignore the daily disintegration of the jihadi rebels in East Aleppo.
The SAA, Palestinian militias long resident in Syria, Hizbullah from both Lebanon and Iraq, Iranian troops and the Aleppo Kurds in the Sheikh Maqsood neighborhood are systematically disassembling the jihadi pocket in East Aleppo.
The more that progresses the more the IO war for American public acquiescence ramps up.
The "White Helmets" are reputed to be in line for a Nobel Peace Prize. pl
LeaNder
Obama's image in Europe has never been matched here. ironically the strength of the anti-Russian/R2P/Ziocon forces here is now so great that Obama appears to be one of elements of the remaining forces for peace. pl
Posted by: turcopolier | 06 October 2016 at 09:24 AM
If these elements have hijacked foreign policy then how is that different from a putsch?
Posted by: rjj | 06 October 2016 at 09:42 AM
Colonel,
Speaking of peace.
The Dauphin of KSA was meeting some Syrian govt. representatives in Moscow. They were told to drop Iran and then Syria will not be the enemy of KSA.
I guess he must think that he is another Bandar. They know that AQ is losing Aleppo to the R+6.
Posted by: The Beaver | 06 October 2016 at 04:09 PM
Guterres was elected by all the members of the UNSC and now it will be a formality as far as UNGA is concerned.
Ban Ki-Moon did not want to extend his contract at UNHCR last year. Now I would like to see what he will do with the nomination of Ban Ki-Moon son in law as the UN rep in Kenya ( he was given the job even though he does not merit it and his selection was iffy)
Posted by: The Beaver | 06 October 2016 at 04:18 PM
Found the video of the actor laughing in the White Helmets' hospital:
http://en.farsnews.com/player.aspx?nn=13950706001386
Posted by: Imagine | 28 April 2017 at 06:00 AM