Ahmad Nemah, a midlevel Syrian rebel commander.
Denial is a POWERFUL ADDICTIVE DRUG.
But not everyone is so hopeful.
Mclatchy:
“Of course, people are depressed, and I’m having trouble convincing everyone that there will be a strike.”There’s a good reason why Nemah is having difficulty selling his argument to his fighters of the Free Syrian Army, the loose tangle of disparate guerrilla bands nominally backed by the United States and its European and Arab allies. Obama’s abrupt decision on Saturday to delay the strikes that seemed just hours away is being seen in the region as the latest confirmation of an incoherent U.S. approach of mixed messages and unfulfilled threats that have driven America’s standing to a new low.“Washington doesn’t understand the Middle East. His (Obama’s) image here is of someone who is afraid of getting enmeshed in the machinations of the Middle East,” said Maher Abu-Teyr, a political columnist with Ad-Dustour, a semi-official Jordanian daily newspaper. “There is no trust in Washington in the area because (people) think Obama is weak.”
“There is no trust in Washington in the area because (people) think Obama is weak.”
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Please go over to Andrea Shea King's BlogTalkRadio 9/4 program to hear from a perspective of Capitol Hill, the Honorable Elizabeth Letchworth explain what’s likely going on behind closed doors – the horse trading to get votes in support of Obama’s determination to fight a proxy war for the Saudis.
It deals with natural gas pipelines that Russia and Saudi Arabia, Qatar are competing to gain footing thru Syria to provide energy the EU market.
*Contemplate also Turkey's role and it's leverage to gain EU membership
@ 5 minute mark Shae-King discusses the Drudge headline about Arab willingness to pay for US blood and treasure to secure Syria for their interests.
@6 minute mark - war over liquid natural gas (LNG) pipeline, Qatar sent $3M to support rebels in Syria to unseat Assad and place their own puppet regime to allow placement of this pipeline
@7 minute mark - Saudi $$huge to rebels - Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan jetting fm covert rebel command to Paris to Kremlin in Moscow to unseat Assad regime to place their own puppet
Russia prefers Assad to block the flow across the Persian Gulf to keep GAZPROM in control of flow
@9 minute mark Shea-King discusses a 2009 article describing Qatar's desire to place a liquid natural gas pipeline to Turkey which will then transit through to the EU.
Qatar to nabucco pipeline through Turkey Qatar
SA Jordan Syria - Turkey
20 minute mark discusses "Obama's" red line origin and potential for US boots on the ground - (lawfare blog)THE proposed AUMF focused on Syria WMD
***very plausible stuff - must hear this program!
If we locate or the Mossad tells us where the VX is, we will need to go TAKE THEM. If that is NOT part of this plan, WHY BOTHER.
That being the case, this is all bullshit.
Syria is not Pakistan and we are not going to be sending 10 seals in to get the weapons.
We are talking Little Big Horn for 'boots on the ground' or we are talking a LOT OF PEOPLE
Just sayin'
It seems to me that to two sides from which to pick on this war is either to support the further funding of Communist influence/control via Gazprom or increase funding Islamic expansion/influence via Nabucco (Liquid natural gas pipeline thru Arab/Turk interests).
Choose neither. Their profits/prophet should be at the expense of their own blood and treasure.
Europe had better wake up because the brunt of this influence/leverage is aimed at their well being - given Turkey jockeying for increased leverage to join EU to garner ever more political influence through energy.
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