King Obama seems intent on allying with Al Qaeda and giving them Syria

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Obama Asks Pentagon To Draw Up Plans For No-Fly Zone Over Syria

The White House has asked the Pentagon to draw up plans for a no-fly zone inside Syria that would be enforced by the U.S. and other countries such as France and Great Britain, two administration officials told The Daily Beast.

The request was made shortly before Secretary of State John Kerry toured the Middle East last week to try and finalize plans for an early June conference between the Syrian regime and rebel leaders in Geneva. The opposition, however, has yet to confirm its attendance and is demanding that the end of Syrian President Bashar al Assad’s rule be a precondition for negotiations, a condition Assad is unlikely to accept.

President Obama’s dual-track strategy of continuing to pursue a political solution to the two-year-old uprising in Syria while also preparing for more direct U.S. military involvement includes authorizing the Joint Chiefs of Staff for the first time to plan for multilateral military actions inside Syria, the two officials said. They added that no decisions on actually using force have yet been made.

“The White House is still in contemplation mode but the planning is moving forward and it’s more advanced than it’s ever been,” one administration official told The Daily Beast. “All this effort to pressure the regime is part of the overall effort to find a political solution, but what happens if Geneva fails? It’s only prudent to plan for other options.”

In a May 8 meeting of the National Security Council Principals Committee, the White House tasked several agencies with reporting on the pros and cons of two additional potential courses of action: arming vetted and moderate elements of the Syrian opposition, such as the Free Syrian Army, and formally recognizing the Syrian opposition council as the government of Syria, which would mean removing formal U.S. recognition of the Assad regime.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/28/exclusive-barack-obama-asks-pentagon-for-syria-no-fly-zone-plan.html



Set to align ourselves with Al Qaeda. Meanwhile, Al-Nusra says in an interview with The Economist that there are no permanent friends.

[GigantorX]

This is turning out to be one of the worst administrations in history.


This is some true 1984 stuff.

We are at war with Syria, we were never at war with Al-Qaeda.

How many fingers do you see?

[240 is Back]

Libya II.

[GigantorX]

I thought Al-Qaeda and other linked Islamic Radical groups were our sworn enemies?

And this will be a different ball game than Libya. You have Russians/Ukranian  military "volunteers" signing up to go to Syria to train the Syrian military, you have the Russians putting their chips on the table and selling Assad SAMs, other military equipment and giving some stern verbal warnings to outside intervention. All the while you have Israel hitting targets inside Syria, the U.S. wanting to fund Al-Qaeda/Islamic Radical Groups/mercenaries, calls for a No-Fly-Zone and the EU lifting the arms ban. I think their may be some natural gas, shipping etc. in play as well.

Quite the hot potato.

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This WILL spread into a larger regional war.

The Europeans are divided upon support for the rebels... Only Britain & France are for arming the Syrian opposition fighters, while the rest of the Eurozone and NATO nations think a hands off approach is the way to go.

Now Hezbollah has stated that it must side with Assad against the Al Queda terrorists and Nato funded Islamic radicals, because if Syria falls, Lebanon is next, ...drawing yet another country into the debacle.

I don't think this is going to end well for all concerned.