…8And the king of Sodom and the king of Gomorrah and the king of Admah and the king of Zeboiim and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) came out; and they arrayed for battle against them in the valley of Siddim, 9against Chedorlaomer king of Elam and Tidal king of Goiim and Amraphel king of Shinar and Arioch king of Ellasar - four kings against five. 10Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell into them. But those who survived fled to the hill country.…
New American Standard Bible Genesis 14:8-10.
The Genesis quotation above is not about what is going on in Syria right now in the literal sense .
President Obama's thin red line .
(3)>>During the Arab Spring , Syria became a target of American aggression not seen since the Vietnam war . While invading and occupying Iraq and Afghanistan during the last decade,the war on terror helped the heaped up dead bodies and cost the United States trillions of dollars . Some of that money is not even accounted . Basic American tax payer money blown up . Creating a huge humanitarian crisis of escaping refugees . The fall of the last rebel-held areas in the Syrian city of Aleppo could seal the fate of the “Obama Doctrine,” deepening (4)>>the world’s worst humanitarian crisis in decades and staining U.S. President Barack Obama’s legacy. Former President Obama can thank his lucky stars for the inability of the US news media to focus on more than one story at a time. Their choice, reasonably enough, has been the fascinating and vastly colorful so called Russian meddling farce in 2016 presidential race. Otherwise it might have been the debacle that Washington’s Congress would be boiling it's policy over Syria. The Pro- American al Qaeda's Syria branches which have been identified by the American government as "democratic freedom fighters " , have been since armed in a conflict supporting the overthrow of Assad . Creating a four way conflict of armies fighting each other and ...{ Russia, Iran , Turkish , Kurds , Israelis and Americans } the Islamic State , while at the same time fighting Syrian Assad backed American Rebels . Russians intervention in this conflict has generated a lot of controversy of the western governments . (5)>>The Russians in my opinion have done a better job at stabilizing Syria , freeing Islamic State territories , liberating Christians , Muslims alike . While the American policy has been a debacle leaving corpses of Christians , Muslims . While I hope that my American leadership under Donald Trump will focus more on sitting down with more diplomatic talks with all parties { Russia , Turkey and Iran} soon enough , let Syria , the Assad regime stay. Decrying Aleppo's fall is a freebie. We don't have to consider who would have inherited a Western victory over Assad. As of two weeks ago, perhaps 8,000 to 10,000 rebel fighters were holed up under the constant weeks-long shelling of Aleppo. The majority of them were affiliated with al Qaeda's Syria branches. Aleppo has its share of civilians who are sympathetic to the rebels and mortally terrified and imperiled by Assad's regime. But those who escaped Aleppo earlier this year say that many other civilians are kept there as human shields and propaganda for the al Qaeda fighters who held the city. The fighting over the last five days has exposed as a dangerous fantasy the US hopes that its new interventionist policy would stabilise northern Syria. Instead of weakening President Bashar al-Assad and Iran, it will benefit them, showing the Kurds that they badly need a protector other than the US. The Kurds are now demanding that the Syrian Army go to Afrin to defend it against the Turks because it is an integral part of Syria. A military confrontation between Turkey and the US would be much in the interests of Tehran and Damascus. The Iranians, denounced by the US as the source of all evil, will be glad to see America in lots of trouble in Syria without them having to stir a finger.
Getting out of Syria , ending the Humanitarian crisis in a REASONABLE MANNER !
Getting out of Syria , ending the Humanitarian crisis in a REASONABLE MANNER !
At the United Nations, a vote on a Security Council resolution demanding a 30-day humanitarian cease-fire across Syria was delayed until Saturday to try to close a gap over the timing of a halt to fighting. A major first step would be to get the US out of the ME in any shape of form. (6)>>The US and Russian approaches to dealing with the Syrian conflict are a study in contrasts. The United States failed "train and equip" program has become the butt of jokes in the Middle East. The White House's reluctance to act decisively in Syria is motivated by a number of factors: Its abhorrence of military interventionism, its misguided assumption that military action in Syria would have jeopardised nuclear negotiations with Iran, and its further misguided assumption that Assad's downfall will inevitably lead to ISIL taking Damascus.Putin's approach is to do all he can to protect the Assad regime. Russia has vetoed United Nations Security Council resolutions targeting the Syrian government. In the meantime, we are left with stories and images of devastation, as the bodies of children are pulled from under rubble, and schools, homes, hospitals and UN aid convoys are bombed. Six years of grinding war has left Syria a deeply fractured country. Yet this very fragmentation provides an opportunity for the Trump administration to work with Russia and key regional states to de-escalate the conflict and reach an enduring political settlement. Prior to 2011, Syria was a very advanced and almost westernized country. The women did not wear the Burqa. The men drank. Life was all right. It was in 2011 that the rebels attacked and they were supported by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Israel and NATO. Now, the result is that Syria has been reduced to almost rubble with over 7 million refugees leaving the country for Europe. It is time that Europe and the West should leave Assad to sort out his own issues or they will have the ignominy of facing the massive inflow of refugees.NATO is also to take the blame for this as they too supported the rebels. They asked not to send weapons to Syria and Trump was forced to bomb Syria as he was pushed into it by the Jewish Lobby and the Neo- Conservatives. Over a million refugees from Syria have fled to neighbouring Lebanon to escape the conflict. So, it is high time that the West should leave Syrian President Bashar al-Assad alone. What is required to properly resolve the Syrian conflict is for the major powers backing both regime and opposition camps to fundamentally change their long-held, self-interested policies and engage in meaningful talks that will see real concessions and compromises made. The outcome would ideally be some form of transitional power-sharing between those elements of the regime and opposition acceptable to the majority of Syrians and capable of effectively addressing their grievances. This transitional authority would then be in a unique position to take on and eventually defeat extremism in Syria, with the help and support of the wider international community. Perhaps stabilize and keep Syria unified .
NOTES AND COMMENTS:
(1.1)>>To illustrate how the nation of Syria has been invaded . The Syrian civil war contained multiple conflicts — Assad versus American-backed rebels, Assad versus jihadists (with the line between American-backed rebels and jihadists blurry indeed), rebels versus rebels, IS versus virtually everybody, and the American-led coalition versus IS.Stage two began with Vladimir Putin’s decisive entry into the conflict. Only the gullible believed he had arrived to fight IS. Whereas America’s goals were nebulous and idealistic (beat IS and somehow make peace), his goals were brutal and simple (crush Assad’s enemies and win the war), and he set about accomplishing his goals with ruthless efficiency. He largely left IS alone and instead bombed American-backed rebels and other anti-Assad militias into the dust. Gradually, the front stabilized. Gradually, Assad won key battles and recaptured key cities. Let’s put this in plain English. American forces and American allies are not only taking territory from IS, they’re holding that territory against regime forces. There’s a word for what happens when a foreign power takes and holds territory without the consent of the sovereign state — that word is “invasion.” In many ways, current American policy is a lighter-footprint, less ambitious version of the American invasion of Iraq in 2003. We’re using local allies, but our own boots are on the ground, and we’re directly defending our forces and our allies from threats from Syria’s own government. (1.2)>>The Islamic State is finished. I don't believe US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson unexpectedly announced that American military forces would remain in Syria after the defeat of Isis. Their agenda was nothing if not ambitious: it included the stabilisation of the country, getting rid of Bashar al-Assad, rolling back Iranian influence, preventing the resurgence of Is and bringing an end to the seven-year Syrian war. Tillerson did not seem to care that this new departure was sure to offend a lot of powerful players in and around Syria and was quite contrary to past US pledges that it was only fighting in Syria to defeat Isis and had no other aims. (2)>>Yes. Congress is concerned about the End of Days. The United States of America during the last two decades has brought the world closer to Armageddon by invading Iraq , Afghanistan and now Syria . The whole middle -east during the Arab Spring was set ablaze by American interference . Its UNCANNY , the One Nation Under God has been a catalyst and antagonist in Middle East conflicts It's quite likely that the Middle East has been spared from becoming the utter humanitarian disaster that most of postcolonial Africa has been only because of the presence of oil. While in the last half-century American oil interests have become dominant and have no doubt directly influenced political coups and wars in the region. The "nightmare" is boiling at the surface since the involvement of Israel in the Syrian conflict . For years Israel has been striking at weapons stores and other facilities in Syria with a single goal - to disrupt and, as far as possible, to prevent advanced Iranian missiles being delivered to Hezbollah in Lebanon. Syria has often been the conduit for these shipments, but the changing balance of power there, with the survival of the regime of President Bashar al-Assad bolstered by Iranian help, has introduced a powerful new element - a direct Iranian role in the crisis. Its beginning to sound vary biblical with all the world powers converging in one spot. (3)>>During the Arab Spring. Obama and his team misread and mishandled the Arab Spring. As Joshua Landis explains in a remarkable, must-read interview, the U.S. response to these events — and especially Syria — was ill-conceived from the very start. In particular, Obama and his team mistakenly viewed the Arab Spring as a large-scale, grass-roots uprising clamoring for liberal democracy and embraced it too quickly. They also underestimated the ability of violent extremists to exploit power vacuums in failed states and the resilience of authoritarian regimes in places like Syria or Egypt. These misunderstandings led to Obama’s disastrous intervention in Libya, his inept diplomatic interference in Yemen, and the premature demand that “Assad must go” in Syria. President Barack Obama and other U.S. officials repeatedly insisted that this was “not about America.” In reality, it was partly about America, not just because of the past U.S. role in backing Arab dictatorships, but because of the critical role it would continue to play in the region. (4)>>the world’s worst humanitarian crisis in decades. Syria’s civil war has created a humanitarian crisis of horrendous proportions. With most media comment focused on the struggle against Islamic State and the consequent gains and losses on the battlefield, far too little attention has been paid to the immeasurable suffering the conflict has inflicted on huge numbers of the Syrian people. Civilian deaths as a result of the fighting and from poison gas attacks in the course of combat have been estimated at some 300,000. That, indeed, is a massive toll of innocent life. But the truly staggering statistics relate to the living.The country’s pre-war population was some 21 million. UN figures show that at the last count, on 28 September 2017, well over half the population – something approaching 12 million Syrians – had been displaced from their homes. Some 6.3 million are homeless within Syria, but no less than 5.2 million have fled the country and are now refugees – over half of them, it has been estimated, under the age of 18. This figure includes 2 million Syrians registered by UNHCR in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon, over 3 million registered by Turkey, and more than 30,000 Syrian refugees registered in North Africa. (5)>>The Russians in my opinion have done a better job at stabilizing Syria.One thing , the Russians want to keep the Syrian nation united , by respecting its territories . While the US coalition has aided "terrorists" in the guise of " democratic freedom fighters". Secondly , the United States is planning to divide Syria into various "states" than includes a homeland for the Kurds . While advocating the overthrow of Assad , its so sneaky , I don't think many Americans know the covert actions of its government . What's appalling to me as a American is that the nations media circus spun a tale that "Russia is de -stabilizing Syria" . It must be the worst crock of Sh**T I have ever heard . American intervention in Syria created a quagmire that forced Russia to enter and support Syrian leader Assad . The Truth is that By the end of the summer of 2015, various terrorist groups controlled about 70% of the territory of Syria, the IG's militants captured Rakku, Palmira, Manbij, a number of other strategically important settlements, transport communications, oil and gas fields.Government forces could not independently cope with the attack of militants, air strikes by the US-led international coalition against the IG also did not have the proper effect on terrorist groups. In this situation, the Syrian authorities appealed to Russia for help. August 26, 2015 was signed an interstate agreement on the deployment of Russian aviation in Syria. So far the Russians have provided humanitarian aide to the Syrians , Syrian Christians . Something completely lacking in my American counterpart . (6)>>The US and Russian approaches. I always suspected that maybe some sinister organization is behind that propaganda that Russia hacked our election , the media going crazy over it with out a single evidence . At the same time who ever is responsible for that is creating a battle ground so Russia and America would go to war . What's at stake for the U.S. being involved in a conflict that grows more complicated by the day? Everything, said former U.S. State Department official Matthew Hoh and former CIA counterterrorism analyst John Kiriakou Hoh and Kiriakou were accompanied by legal analyst Christie Edwards, and author and activist David Swanson. "We are on the brink with a war with Russia," Hoh told an audience at a National Press Club event .
