Zero Hedge:
Well, isn’t that convenient?  At the moment when the Obama administration is feeling more heat then ever before, it starts another war. Suddenly everyone in the mainstream media is talking all about Syria and not about the IRS scandal, Benghazi, NSA snooping or any of the other political scandals that have popped up in recent weeks.
As if on cue, Obama made headlines all over the globe on Thursday by claiming that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons against the rebels “multiple times”, and that the U.S. was now ready to do more to assist the rebels. That assistance is reportedly going to include “military support” for the rebels and a no-fly zone over at least part of Syria is being discussed. Without a doubt, these are acts of war, and this conflict is not going to end until Assad has been ousted. But Assad will not go quietly.
And all it would take is for Assad to fire a couple of missiles at Tel Aviv for a huge regional war to erupt in the Middle East. And what happens if Russia or China decides to get involved in the conflict in Syria? Obama is playing with fire, but he has shown again and again that he is willing to do virtually anything if it will benefit him politically.
As far as the Obama administration is concerned, there is no such thing as a coincidence.  The timing of this announcement regarding Syria was not an accident. If Obama wanted to use chemical weapons as an excuse to go after Syria he could have done it weeks ago, or he could have waited several more months before taking action. He chose to do it right now for a reason, and hopefully the American people will be able to see right through this.
So exactly what are we going to be doing for the Syrian rebels? Well, we will definitely be arming them and training them. And it is probably reasonable to assume that there will be American “advisers” on the ground inside Syria helping to organize the Syrian resistance. In fact, according to Debka, a large U.S. Marine force has already been deployed to the Jordanian border with Syria.
In addition, according to the Wall Street Journal, U.S. aircraft may be involved in enforcing a no-fly zone inside Syria…
A U.S. military proposal for arming Syrian rebels also calls for a limited no-fly zone inside Syria that would be enforced from Jordanian territory to protect Syrian refugees and rebels who would train there, according to U.S. officials.
Asked by the White House to develop options for Syria, military planners have said that creating an area to train and equip rebel forces would require keeping Syrian aircraft well away from the Jordanian border.
To do that, the military envisages creating a no-fly zone stretching up to 25 miles into Syria which would be enforced using aircraft flown from Jordanian bases and flying inside the kingdom, according to U.S. officials.
No matter how you slice it, the United States is now in a state of war with Syria. The only question is how “involved” we are going to get.
And several prominent Republicans are already rushing forward to applaud Barack Obama on this latest move. The following comes from a CBS News report…
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who met with the rebels last month and has been a vocal critic of the president’s Syria policy said in a joint statement with Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.: “We appreciate the President’s finding that the Assad regime has used chemical weapons on several occasions. We also agree with the President that this fact must affect U.S. policy toward Syria. The President’s red line has been crossed. U.S. credibility is on the line. Now is not the time to merely take the next incremental step. Now is the time for more decisive actions.”
But you know what? Many of these Syrian rebels have actually pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda.
Yes, you read that correctly.
The whole point of the “war on terror” was to supposedly fight al-Qaeda, but now the U.S. military is allied with them.
Why in the world would we want to help the people who are supposed to be our greatest global enemy?…
A Syrian rebel group’s pledge of allegiance to al-Qaeda’s replacement for Osama bin Laden suggests that the terrorist group’s influence is not waning and that it may take a greater role in the Western-backed fight to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad.
The pledge of allegiance by Syrian Jabhat al Nusra Front chief Abou Mohamad al-Joulani to al-Qaeda leader Sheik Ayman al-Zawahri was coupled with an announcement by the al-Qaeda affiliate in Iraq, the Islamic State of Iraq, that it would work with al Nusra as well.
Lebanese Sheik Omar Bakri, a Salafist who says states must be governed by Muslim religious law, says al-Qaeda has assisted al Nusra for some time.
“They provided them early on with technical, military and financial support , especially when it came to setting up networks of foreign jihadis who were brought into Syria,” Bakri says. “There will certainly be greater coordination between the two groups.”
This group of jihadists has been responsible for car and suicide bombings all over Syria, and they are the ones that have been doing the heaviest fighting on the front lines…
One pundit put Obama’s foreign policy philosophy (If you can call it a policy) ”doing too much, too late.”
Obama dithers in the Middle East until all of the secularists are either dead or marginalized, then swoops in to aid the Islamists!
It’s a pattern we’ve already seen in Egypt, Libya and now Syria.
Is he just wagging the dog?
Did he only dither until he had scandals too big to take off the front pages any other way?
OR, more likely, is he attempting to assist in de-colonializing the Middle East by helping erase all those ”artificial” national boundaries?
Denesh De Susa (sp???) made a movie based on the idea that hating European (white) colonialism formed the basis for Obama’s motivations.
Could be a case of trying to kill two birds….
yes, his bs trip to africa will produce little except a big American Express/Visa bill the US taxpayers as the idiot and entitled family shops.
Complete distracton..hoping that when he returns the idiots like polosi, reed and feinstein(bigger fool) will have cover everything up.
How dumb can the american people get.
I’m concerned about the MILITARY who will be killed
OBAMA is not, he doesn’t give a dam about the MILITARY,
one retire GENERAL said the MILITARY ARE EXAUSTED,
and OBAMA should not touch SYRIA,
What could go wrong?
– Iran has troops on the ground in Syria.
– Russia has jets in its skies.
– Russia has naval base in Tartus.
– No fly zone? To control or bring down Syrian and Russian jets?
– American arms to the rebels? Who?
Yah, perfect distraction manufactured in idiocy.
James Raider
yes absolutely,
and not necessary, and it’s tragic for the MILITARY WHO WILL BE TARGET THERE NO MATTER IN JORDAN
OR IN SYRIA and they are the one to be put in sanwitch no way to get out,
which will escalate into ugly happening, but OBAMA will see it on his SCREEN,
safe and drooling
Obama isn’t “starting another war.” A war has been in progress in Syria for the past 2 years. Assad will deliberately attempt to draw our ally Israel into the conflict, as a means to gain more support for his own regime.
Has anyone got any ideas that make more sense than supporting anti-Assad forces? I sure as hell haven’t heard any up to this point.
I honestly don’t believe there are any. The situation is horribly screwed up. Any move we make could go totally wrong. In which case the most intelligent response is to do as little as possible, leaving as many options open as possible for as long as possible.
Unless, of course, somebody’s actually got a better idea.
GREG
you have a good solution,
ISRAEL was surely monitoring the revolt minute by minutes,
it is really a revolution and the pattern is deja vu but longer time,
probably because the rebels where provided with clandestine weapons,
and now it has surface enough to expose OBAMA, so to be accuse of helping the REBELS
from the beginning,
remember he started helping when he ask ASSAD to resign,
deja vue again, and he could not take the refusal so easy, he kept saying
ASSAD must go everywhere he went. he was obsess by the answer of ASSAD,
so now he is compel to action. and that is dangerous,
I still think BENGHASI is a player concerning weapons walking