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[miltiades]

" His views on Middle east and Syria are well known. America is going to make the Middle east a focus area."
Well known to whom ? Can you perhaps give us a link in support of your statement ?

[Paphitis]

" His views on Middle east and Syria are well known. America is going to make the Middle east a focus area."
Well known to whom ? Can you perhaps give us a link in support of your statement ?

Read and weep old man...

BTW, Mad Dog Mattis was the Commander of the Combined Joint task Force which btw is the entire Coalition Force in Syria. He is a strong advocate for a NO FLY ZONE and arming Rebels as well as arming the YPG and protecting the Kurdish controlled Areas in Syria.

And the YPG are an affiliate to the Pkk in Turkey which is why Erdogan is having babies after sucking too much Russian Dick.

yes, mad Dog is a hard liner and will not be changing anything as far as the CJTF is concerned. The former commander of the CJTF isn't going to do a thing to compromise his boys in Syria or compromise US/Coalition relations.

Mad Dog is the best guy to be leading the world through these uncertain times.

[Paphitis]

BTW, do you see the number of countries actually involved one way or another with the CJTF (Coalition)

Oh look! cyprus is a funny blue!



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_ ... nt_Resolve

So you aren't a True Cypriot after all.

[miltiades]

So ...no links , just your own views which thus far have proven to be disastrously wrong.
How are YOUR rebels in Aleppo by the way ? Still ...no change ?
Incidentally, Assad is still in power

[Paphitis]

So ...no links , just your own views which thus far have proven to be disastrously wrong.
How are YOUR rebels in Aleppo by the way ? Still ...no change ?
Incidentally, Assad is still in power

I already told you he was the commander of the CJTF. That should be plenty of evidence for you at this stage.

His views on Syria are also very well known, and he is a proponent for Transition in Syria and arming and training rebels as well.

And btw, you do not have any links to suggest Trump is going to be doing what you allege. if he is, the Coalition members don't realize yet and are continuing with their operations.

You are clasping at straws based on what Trump said in a brutal campaign, most of which he has already back flipped on.

[Paphitis]

So ...no links , just your own views which thus far have proven to be disastrously wrong.
How are YOUR rebels in Aleppo by the way ? Still ...no change ?
Incidentally, Assad is still in power

OPH and straight from the horses' mouth. Should have been obvious to you as to his views on Syria. You would have to be an illogical to think Mad Dog does not support Coalition efforts in Syria and Iraq when he was the commander of the CJTF, and does not support political transition in Syria. He views this war as a proxy with Iran and Trumps views on Iran aren't particularly cordial either. Trump wants a further 10 years of embargoes against Iran and tear up Obama's agreement. Do you want a link for this as well?

Well it looks like all your wet dreams are in a big huge heap Milti.

Military’s Mideast Chief Sounds Ready to Aid Syria’s Rebels

MARINE GEN. JAMES Mattis, the commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East, didn’t come out and endorse U.S. intervention in Syria. But he did everything short of it, playing up the opportunity for the U.S. to bloody the nose of an Iranian proxy. Mattis told a Senate panel that knocking off dictator Bashar Assad would represent “the biggest strategic setback for Iran in 25 years.”

A proxy war against Iran sounded like the most compelling rationale for involvement in Syria to Mattis, who testified on Tuesday morning before a Senate Armed Services Committee strongly concerned with aiding the Syrian rebels and checking Iranian influence in the Mideast. Prompted primarily by Sen. John McCain, who endorses U.S. airstrikes on Assad’s forces, Mattis said Iran’s “link to Lebanese Hezbollah will be cut if Bashar Assad goes,” and that “providing arms” to the Syrian opposition “is perhaps an option.”

It sounded like Mattis has considered the prospect of intervention in Syria with some specificity. Mattis said Syria lacked physical terrain conducive to providing “safe zones” for civilians under fire from Assad loyalists, as the former State Department policy chief Anne-Marie Slaughter has proposed. He said it wouldn’t be easy: Russia has given Iran “very advanced” aerial defense systems, making “the imposition of any no-fly zone challenging.” Asked if the White House has asked him to propose plans for Syria, Mattis said he didn’t want to answer publicly.

“If we were to provide options, whatever they are, to hasten the fall of Assad,” Mattis testified, then as long as other nations were on board, “it would cause a great deal of concern and discontent in Tehran.”

And that was central to Mattis’ presentation of any value to U.S. interests for intervening in Syria. (Not, say, securing chemical and biological weapons.) The real strategic goal would be to weaken Iran, which Mattis said “presents the most significant threat in the region.” (Read: a greater threat than al-Qaida.)

Worldwide, Iran fights “basically a shadow war everyday,” Mattis said, knocking off a list of nations in which Iran intervenes, from Sudan to Yemen to Iran to the crazy bomb plot to kill a Saudi ambassador in Washington. “They’ve gone all over the place, sir, and they enjoy this sort of thing,” he told Sen. John Cornyn.

Mattis didn’t endorse a bombing campaign — by either the U.S. or Israel — on Iran. And hawkish Israelis might not appreciate Mattis’ comment that “only the Iranian people” can end Iran’s nuclear problem. But he suggested that a confrontation with the Iranians would occur sooner or later, as the regime’s behavior carries a “high potential for miscalculation” and it was something the U.S. has to “accept as part of their modus operandi.”

All of this has been further than the White House has gone, either on Syria or on Iran. While the U.S. intelligence community doesn’t think Iran’s nuclear program is geared toward a bomb, Mattis said the Iranians were “enriching more uranium than they need for any peaceful purpose.” And the White House thinks using U.S. military force in Syria could “accelerate the conflict on the ground and worsen the humanitarian situation without stopping the violence,” as an official told ABC’s Jake Tapper on Monday. However, Josh Rogin reports for Foreign Policy that the administration will provide “direct humanitarian and communications assistance to the Syrian opposition,” while still ruling out military measures.

On Wednesday, the same panel will call Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to testify on Syria. They may not be as comfortable with the prospect of getting involved in a whole new Mideast conflict. “The focus at this point remains on applying very strong diplomatic and economic pressure on the Syrian regime to stop what it’s doing,” says George Little, the Pentagon’s chief spokesman.

https://www.wired.com/2012/03/mattis-syria

[Get Real!]

Oh look! cyprus is a funny blue!

Cyprus is a supplier of goods, services, and fuel to Russian warships and I wouldn’t be surprised if we’re also supplying Syria directly, so that article is nothing but propaganda RUBBISH.

[miltiades]

Paphitis, some time back you stated that WW3 is not such a bad idea.
Would you by chance be cherishing the prospect of this happening ?

[Zenon33]

BTW, do you see the number of countries actually involved one way or another with the CJTF (Coalition)

Oh look! cyprus is a funny blue!



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_ ... nt_Resolve

So you aren't a True Cypriot after all.

Turkey blue??.
Erdogan is the first ISIS ally.

[Paphitis]

All I got to say is thank you very much Donald J Trump.

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! If I was American, I would vote for him and I make no apology for this. So much promise!

It's just refreshing to see an International Leader give an insight into his brain on a regular basis. This is a new style of politics and I like it a lot!

Trump is sending China a message and highlighting everyone's hypocrisy. The One China Policy is all very interesting when it comes to Taiwan but the same commentators cream their pants for a photo opportunity with the Dalai Lama!

And Trump did say that Obama just sold $2 billion worth of arms to Taiwan and yet answering a call from Taiwan's President is an issue for China. Oh please spare me!

Stupid people. Hold on to your hats, because the world is about to change!

And congratulations to Italy for the great referendum result. The issue here is they want out of the Eurozone because they too are losing their fabulous motor vehicle industry which was arguably the best in the world. FIAT has gone to America!

This was a protest vote like BREXIT 2 on steroids. Aspirational countries like Britain and Italy are revolting!

Revolution people! And a lot of you are gonna explode!