Robin Hood wrote:Kikapu:The so called "Syrian Free Army" supported by Israel hating countries can hardly be in Israel’s interest to have Assad removed or even punished by the AIPAC controlled US congress. What would the Americans gain by sending few cruise missiles into Syria, which might by chance swing the advantage on the ground to the rebels, who most probably hate Israel more than the countries supporting the rebels, like Turkey?
I am afraid your vision is far too narrow ..........
Maybe the legal principal of ‘Cui Bono’ should be applied to the evidence the US/UK/Israel are so confident points the finger at Assad but, as yet, nobody has actually seen. It is clear to a blind man that Sarin or some similar nerve agent was used, so that is not news but, there seems little or no evidence as to who released it.
The reason Obama wants to nail Assad and his forces is to break down his ability to respond to the assault by the US/Saudi funded rebels. Assad appears to gaining the upper hand in the civil war in spite of US/UK/Saudi support for the rebels.
The Syrian standing army represents an existential threat to Israel. Like Iran they present a well equipped, competent, organised and trained military and as such a threat to Israel’s regional hegemony. The fact that once Assad’s military is degraded and the rebels overrun the country is of no consequence to Israel as they can cope with an Islamic Syria because of their military superiority. What they can’t tolerate is military forces that are organised and a match for the IDF in the conventional theatre. If the rebels take over, as we have seen in all the Arab states after their Arab spring, the warring factions will go on fighting between themselves and will present little or no threat to Israel.
The US purpose for this attack has nothing to do with their horror of this chemical incident but simply "Divide et impera-divide."? Cui Bono ...... Israel.
Next countries in line for humanitarian intervention once the US has Syria nailed down? Lebanon and then Iran! Let us hope that US intervention does nor spur Iran/Lebanon to take action to ’.. protect their national security’, by taking pre-emptive military action as their undeniable right to ‘self defence’ ..... or does that principle only apply to Israel?
A cornered animal is dangerous!
RH,
If all you say are the reasons to destroy Assad's military assets to help Israel by blaming Assad for the chemical attack, then Obama and Cameron have missed the boat to attack Syria before the truth comes out that it wasn't Assad who used chemical weapons but it was USA and UK via the rebels, "False Flag", to give them the reason to degrade Assad’s military machine. The UK parliament already said NO to Cameron and the US congress will do likewise and say NO to Obama and if that wasn't bad enough, the UN inspectors will give their findings soon also which will not help Obama nor Cameron.
You also have a Russian base in Syria with their naval military assets in the area ready to go. When did the last time Assad threatened Israel, other than perhaps wanting the Golan Heights back? Obama may be doing all this to get Edward Snowden back from the Russians and call it evens and then try to find a political solution to Syria instead of a military one. G-20 meeting soon will be a good time and place to make the deal with the Russians on Snowden.
