When the US signs NATO agreements with other countries part of that agreement is that the protection of the country…in essence….”an attack on one is an attack on all”……so if Russia out-right attacks one of the countries within the alliance then it is the duty of the US to come to their defense…….
Syria has a similar agreement it signed with Russia and quite possibly Iran…..Russia will come to Syria’s defense if they are attacked……
Pretty much cut and dry sort of agreements, right?
I ask these questions because of something that was issued by the State Dept……..
Described as the “dissent channel cable,” the document appears to mirror the CIA’s own narrative, which is that in attacking ISIS the US is fighting the wrong war in Syria, and instead demands that the US shift focus entirely to militarily imposing regime change on the Syrian government.
Though the State Department document is still secret, it appears to simply echo the CIA’s supposition that ISIS can’t be defeated while Syria has a “weak” government, and that therefore destroying what’s left of Syria’s government might conceivably help.
If you need to read a more detailed account of this situation……
More than 50 State Department diplomats have signed an internal memo sharply critical of the Obama administration’s policy in Syria, urging the United States to carry out military strikes against the government of President Bashar al-Assad to stop its persistent violations of a cease-fire in the country’s five-year-old civil war.
The memo, a draft of which was provided to The New York Times by a State Department official, says American policy has been “overwhelmed” by the unrelenting violence in Syria. It calls for “a judicious use of stand-off and air weapons, which would undergird and drive a more focused and hard-nosed U.S.-led diplomatic process.”
Source: 51 U.S. Diplomats Urge Strikes Against Assad in Syria – The New York Times
This may not be a big deal for you….but maybe you should think about the ramifications of such an attack.
Seriously? Is this just chest thumping or are these morons high?
This is what you get when neocons can keep their jobs?
Thanx for the Al Jazeera content….
Boy I needed that…
got a notification in re: ‘Out’ …
“We, too, miss the old Great Britain and its civilisation. Famine, slavery, penal laws, religious discrimination, Irish apes”
Oh dear…..and wots more he is a poet who I like……gggrrrrrrr
shit happens…beam me up…I have had enuf today
I am going to howl at the Full Moon…..currently overhead!
Glad you liked it….I will use it a little later….have a nite my friend
Reblogged this on A Green Road Daily News.
Once again I cannot thank you enough for the re-blogs….chuq
amazing thought process highlighted in this wonderful post
why thank you my friend…..all this is just a provocation in my opinion…..
however it is so true. anyone thought after bombing what?
None of these foreign entanglements ever accomplish a thing except to make somebody look either big or important or both … for awhile … until whatever the conflict is escalates … and then there is new scrambling for anal-region covering … more rhetoric … more fodder for the incredulous and the myth-informed … yata yata yata … ad infinitum.
You forgot profits
🙂 — and prophylactics?
Tee hee….wink
I saw a sign at a Church that said “entry way” and I told the priest, “You should add the word, “Rear” to that sign, Father! He was not impressed. I think some of this kind of thing must go in the Halls of Congress where “Interior Decoration” must have unique connotations.
You could be right look at the Ex-Speaker that was just sent to prison….