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Last week Pentagon officials told The Wall Street Journal that the planned attack would deter and degrade President Bashar al-Assads security forces. The key would be hitting various Damascus headquarters as well as some of the regimes six operable airports. These airports are the regimes nervous system, defected Air Force Colonel Hassan Hamada told Der Spiegel. The less obvious, and more long-term, part of the plan involves providing vetted parts of the opposition with advanced weaponry, training them with Western advisors, and curbing the funding for jihadist groups.
More here.
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-strategy-in-syria-2013-9
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/09/03/news-of-the-day-22/
Why Syrian Government Use Of Chemical Weapons Matters To US National Security
The U.S. stated, in a law signed by Obama in July 2012, that the strategic environment in the Middle East poses "great challenges to the national security of the United States and our allies in the region, particularly our most important ally in the region."
And several of America's other allies in the region are calling for U.S. intervention aimed at toppling Assad so that the devastating 29-month conflict ends.
"Obama never needed to go searching for a coalition of the willing for Syria; one ... has been knocking, in fact, at the door of the Oval Office for quite some time," Interpreter Magazine Editor-in-Chief Michael D. Weiss wrote in Foreign Policy. "Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates, all see Syria as a grave short-term threat to their national security."
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/how-syrian-chemical-weapons-affect-us-2013-8#ixzz2dtScdi3K
Hearts to Michelle, she's got it too~
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Cha
(305,447 posts)this, she. He and his Team are light years away from those who don't have the knowledge and intelligence that are needed for these critical decisions.
Thank you for the links, she
sheshe2
(87,578 posts)Yet I could not think of a better title.
I really think he's got it. This is the best news I have read. He plans to assist the opposition forces.
And~
The key would be hitting various Damascus headquarters as well as some of the regimes six operable airports. These airports are the regimes nervous system,
Also
3) "It could lead to escalating use of chemical weapons, or their proliferation to terrorist groups who would do our people harm."
This reason involves the fear that Assad would transfer chemical weapons to Hezbollah, the Lebanese-based terrorist group and Iranian proxy that has more than 60,000 rockets pointed at Israel.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/how-syrian-chemical-weapons-affect-us-2013-8#ixzz2dtaJfO8H
This is not a situation that is based in a black and white theory, as some believe. I see it in shades of gray.
BOG Cha
Cha
(305,447 posts)Last edited Wed Sep 4, 2013, 12:44 AM - Edit history (2)
at Kerry and PBO.
I just hope the best possible outcome for all those who think they're doing the right thing by weakening assad.
mahalo she
applegrove
(123,164 posts)Hekate
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(15,741 posts)SunSeeker
(53,698 posts)Surely you can find a thread in GD, LBN or ANYWHERE else on DU to dump on President Obama.
mwrguy
(3,245 posts)Not to mention he IS one of the best minds of his generation.
He will do the right thing, whatever that is.
Cha
(305,447 posts)MzShellG
(1,047 posts)I'm definitely anti-war by any means, I explained that we're uninformed on all facts and classified info that the government has at its disposal. Sure we all have war fatigue, but we are in no way more qualified than the POTUS and his top level advisors, to make the best possible decision, under the circumstances. But that wasn't good enough for him. We went back and forth for a while. SMH. Anyway, props to the BOG. This is like a breath of fresh air on DU.
Cha
(305,447 posts)as Senator Elizabeth Warren has stated.. "We in a flux right now"
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