ISIS, Not Russia, Is the Enemy in Syria

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ISIS, Not Russia, Is the Enemy in Syria

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By :Pat Buchanan | October 06, 2016

 

Denouncing Russian air strikes on Aleppo as "barbaric," Mike Pence declared in Tuesday's debate:

 

"The provocations by Russia need to be met with American strength. ... The United States of America should be prepared to use military force, to strike military targets of Bashar Assad regime."

John McCain went further:

 

"The U.S. ... must issue an ultimatum to Mr. Assad—stop flying or lose your aircraft ... If Russia continues its indiscriminate bombing, we should make clear that we will take steps to hold its aircraft at greater risk."

Yet one gets the impression this is bluster and bluff.

 

Pence has walked his warnings back. And there are few echoes of McCain's hawkishness. Even Hillary Clinton's call for a "no-fly zone" has been muted.

 

The American people have no stomach for a new war in Syria.

 

Nor does it make sense to expand our enemies list in that bleeding and broken country—from ISIS and the al-Qaida-linked al-Nusra Front—to Syria's armed forces, Russia, Iran and Hezbollah.

 

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ISIS, Not Russia, Is the Enemy in Syria

By :Pat Buchanan | October 06, 2016

 

 

 

Says the guy working for Russia.

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The Unlearned Lessons of Iraq, Libya

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By:Srdja Trifkovic | October 09, 2016

Two weeks of atrocity management over Aleppo indicate that the Deep State is still intent on intervening in Syria. Most Americans don’t want another Middle Eastern war, but if Hillary Clinton wins on November 8 it is looks increasingly likely that they will get it.

 

Writing at Consortiumnews.com on October 5, Robert Parry warned that official Washington’s political/punditry class has developed a new “group think” on Syria that is even more dangerous than the one preceding the Iraq war. Like the “frenzied war fever of 2002-2003,” this new consensus is based on “a mix of selective, dubious and false information,” while excluding from the public forum all discordant voices:

 

Most notably, there are two key facts about Syria that Americans are not being told: one, U.S. regional “allies” have been funding and arming radical jihadist groups, including Al Qaeda terrorists, there almost since the conflict began in 2011 and, two, the claim about “moderate” Syrian rebels is a fraud; the “moderates” have served essentially as a P.R. cut-out for the U.S. and its “allies” to supply Al Qaeda and its allies with sophisticated weapons while pretending not to

The true U.S. enemy in Syria is neither Bashar nor Russia; it is the army of Islamic Jihad, under whatever name and in whichever disguise. https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/the-unlearned-lessons-of-iraq-libya/