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U.S. Rush To Strike Syria Slowed Down
Following the deadly use of unknown chemicals by unknown sources in Syria the Obama administration tried to rush into some "punitive" strikes on Syria, which would have unintended consequences and little success. To this purpose it tried to derail an investigation into the incident by UN observers in Syria.
Today it looks like this rush has been blocked by several forces.
The claim by Secretary of State Kerry that Syria was too slow in accepting a UN probe proved to be a lie. The UN only asked Saturday, after the U.S. blocking was rejected, to start an investigation in Syria and was allowed to do so by Syria on Sunday. UN secretary Ban Ki Moon resisted U.S pressure and the UN team in Syria continues its investigation. It will need at least four days until its has some reasonable results. The UN declared that its observers so far have found some "chemical substances" which will have to be analyzed and it insisted that any strike would only be legal if the UN Security Council could agree on it.
The Obama administration has yet to provide any evidence that the alleged chemical attack came from the Syrian government. The only "evidence" purposefully leaked is from rather suspicious Israeli communication intercepts of alleged confused talk between Syrian military units AFTER the alleged attack happened. Those certainly ain't proof of Syrian military involvement.
While the UN insists that a strike could only be internationally legal following an UNSC affirmation, Bush lawyer Jack Goldsmith argues that such a strike, without congressional approval, would be illegal under U.S. domestic law.
In the UK premier Cameron faces resistance not only from the labour party but from a significant part of his fellow conservatives. A rush by Cameron today to get a Libya like UNSC resolution for "all necessary force" to "protect civilians" in Syria was rejected by Russia and China who insisted on voting only after getting results from the UN observers in Syria.
In Europe Poland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, Germany and Norway have, for good reasons, spoken out against any use of force against Syria. Austria blocked its airspace for any air operation related to Syria. The Arab League blamed the chemical incident on the Syrian government but rejected to endorse any punitive measures.
The Turkish premier Erdogan, who would also like to strike Syria, is like Cameron running into problems with his own party. He also has a huge problem with the tanking Turkish Lira and rapidly increasing interest rates. The Turkish economy is currently taking a deep dive which is at least partly to blame on Erdogan's aggressive foreign policy.
In the U.S. skeptical voices against any further interference in Syria are getting some attention. The U.S. people seem to be solidly against any new war in the Middle East.
Today's slow down of the rush to war may only turn out as a delay that still ends in a catastrophe. But today showed that any strike will lack any international legitimacy. It also gives a shimmer of hope that the whole deadly nonsense may be avoided.
I’m less sanguine than many others about what is likely to happen here.
The alacrity with which USuk raced to war indicates that they decided a long while back they would wait for the provocation then jump straight in. (a bit like the patriots act n all the other gwot oppression legislation. Those laws were already written & saved for an opportune moment).
Now we know that this isn’t quite the moment. That tells us is that israel is further off the reservation than even we imagined.
They were prolly 100% confident that their murder of Syrian civilians would crank up the ME Armageddon they appear to live for, however, we can see now that the israelis have lost touch with their ‘allies’ citizens.
Once the single strongest weapon in the zionist armoury, the ability to brainwash western audiences, nowadays israel shows they can’t comprehend, much less influence the wage slaves of the west anymore.
The fucking Daily Mail, the worst, most reactionary of all the englander fishwraps, much loved by the sort of human any thinking MoA-ite would loathe, yesterday carried threads chocka with comments from readers hugely opposed to intervention in Syria.
This is why camoron & oblamblam (see WaPo & other amerikan media) have pulled their heads in, they have suddenly realised that they have convinced no one of their case for blowing away mobs of Syrians.
These guys live & die by opinion polls.
They may buck em from time to time but when they do they depend on a solid minority of loons to back em and carry them through the initial phases, at least until they can harangue the easily swayed into agreement (eg ‘support the troops’ lines of bullshit), but right now they lack even that drongo minority.
No, I’m not sayin these guys listen to the people and act on the peeps wishes, but they know from alla the years of focus groups, research and profiling of the citizens which the political class lives by, that they need to move in reasonable proximity to the citizens, otherwise if they completely lose touch with the populace, even once reliable dingbats come over all stubborn & instransigent & from then on the pols struggle to implement their masters’ orders on all the other stuff required by the elites.
But this doesn’t mean they’ve given up on Syria – quite the reverse.
If they do back off now, which is still only a 50-50 proposition, dependent on how many of the weapons inspectors they own, they won’t be giving up.
Every incident which causes casualties in Syria from then on will be measured against the decision not to intervene & found wanting.
twitter, blogs & fishwrap opinion threads will all get stacked full of sock puppets unrelentingly ‘blaming’ the weak-assed call not to ‘hit Assad where it hurts’ as being the sole cause of some Syrian child’s demise. That will be repeated over and over again.
(The fact that didn’t happen this time indicates that fukus were unprepared for the gas ploy, that the zionists had pulled this scummy stunt without any consultation at all with fukus.)
Even worse, if the assholes don’t go now, they will claim they did ‘listen to the people’ and limited punishment strikes are off the table.
As soon as sufficient dingbats are convinced by the old water dripping on stone technique the warmongers will revert to, ‘intervention’ will include ground troops from the start.
Probably not in any great number from fukus – maybe from israel although the Saudis are unlikely to favour that, since it would make them just too obviously lubing up their asshole for zionist dick.
There are any number of dodgy developing world economies stricken with debt, some of whom have resorted recruiting young men into their military. This has been primarily to keep a lid on internal problems by finding ‘something useful’ for idle young hands. Fiji is a classic example but it has been tied to the UN thus far and lacks a large enough population for an effective force in Syria, but not to worry, somewhere in Asia, maybe India or even Cambodia, could be ‘just the ticket’ for providing a patina of legitimacy by sending a national army into Syria to ‘protect the people’. Indonesia would be ideal – though likely to be problematic if the zionist involvement is too apparent.
Anyway given the wariness most westerners look upon the contractor system, I reckon the assholes will be looking for a national military force from an unwhite jurisdiction. That way the inevitable casualty & death among ‘the rescuers’ wont provoke too many ‘letters to the Times’ or tweets or whatever.
Of course that’s gonna take some time – it is difficult to see all the ducks in a row for such an operation before next summer.
Big problem cause the SNC likely won’t last that long, which is why israel pulled this stunt right now.
So – if a decision not to blow Damascus to the shit in the short term is made, there’s gotta be some other embargo or maybe some sort of device foisted upon Syria, as an attempt to stymie the destruction of those terrorist forces currently on the ground.
This is where Russia’s gonna hafta be very careful. They already understand the thin end of the wedge stuff played to enable Iraq & Libya, but nevertheless they will be cornered into some sort of a concession over the immediate strike back-off if that happens.
Whatever form it takes the play will be primarily designed by fukUS to ensure that the SNC survives within Syria, and doesn’t become a paper force that exists only in Turkish refugee camps.
Watch out Vlad!
Posted by: Debs is dead | Aug 28 2013 23:55 utc | 62
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