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2014-06-08 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Susan Rice Hints U.S. Providing Weapons to Syrian Rebels

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Posted by Uncle Phester 2014-06-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 That's why the United States has ramped up its support for the moderate vetted opposition, providing lethal and nonlethal support where we can to support both the civilian opposition and the military opposition, added Rice.

"Vetting" is an intelligence term she's probably heard many times in briefings on the subject. Rice is undoubtedly referring to support for General [and U.S. citizen] Khalifa Haftar. Notice how seldom the U.S. Citizen piece is mentioned. My underlining.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-06-08 06:47|| 2014-06-08 06:47|| Front Page Top

#2 USA are the good guys?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-06-08 07:37|| 2014-06-08 07:37|| Front Page Top

#3 ...well, the Left has always said the USA was the bad guy. Obviously, with them in charge, they're demonstrating once again their deep seated Freudian projection.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-06-08 08:42|| 2014-06-08 08:42|| Front Page Top

#4 Real good choices in Syria. No matter who you pick in Syria, you lose.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2014-06-08 11:34|| 2014-06-08 11:34|| Front Page Top

#5 Every bullet we send to Syria could potentially wind up in Libya, Iraq, or Afghanistan.

Worse, every RPG, SA-6, and block of C-4 has the great possibility of becoming "a terrorist event" in the United States or aimed at a US interest overseas.

Much like fast and furious, while I was in favor of more US involvement in Libya, we have missed the boat in Syria and are a day late and a dollar short. Had we gone into the Syrian rebellion early on, we MIGHT have had a chance to control who does what to who and orchestrate the moderate factions into the major players.

Our nuisance and complex thinker in oval office is such a micro manager and so indecisive that he has procrastinated every potentially good consequence of the Libyan rebellion and the Syrian rebellion into a no win situation for the US.

Thanks for being so complex a thinker. Give me a single minded decisive person of action any time.

Patton once said "A poor plan violently executed is better than a good plan never finished" or something like that...one of you erudite military historians correct me on this PLEASE.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2014-06-08 14:08|| 2014-06-08 14:08|| Front Page Top

#6 Thanks for being so complex a thinker. Give me a single minded decisive person of action any time.

"The 75% solution executed with extreme VIOLENCE AND ENTHUSIASM will produce SUCCESS."
~ Can't remember who said it.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-06-08 14:13|| 2014-06-08 14:13|| Front Page Top

#7 See also GROONG > [Arminfo] EXPERT: BASHAR ASSAD'S VICTORY AT ELECTION MAY HERALD THE ENDING OF THE CONFLICT OF THE SYRIA.

In addition to proving or affirming his Electoral Legitimacy = "Right to Rule".

IIUC, US schemas to support the Anti-Assad Rebels may backfire on the Bammer Admin = US-Allies by prolonging the conflict + general ME instability in favor traditional Assad family despotic rule, NOT end the conflict in favor of post-despotism Syria "democracy".

Assad is there to keep the Hard Boyz down + prevent them from destabilizing the ME + expanding their jihad into Europe + Russia - IFF HE WASN'T DOING THAT, RUSSIA WOULD'VE REMOVED HIM + REGIME LONG AGO, + IRAN WOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO KEEP ITS NUCPROGS.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-06-08 22:32|| 2014-06-08 22:32|| Front Page Top

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