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The Obama administration has been back-tracking on its hawkish policy towards the Assad regime in Syria. In 2012 the protest movement has converted in an armed civil strife with foreign funding, arms, military intelligence and mujahideen Islamist fighters. The Sunni muslim leaders have declared Jihad to overthrow the infidel Alawite regime and no prisoners will be taken. For Hillary Clinton it’s a reprieve of the nineties and the Bosnia-Serb war. The same stupid policy is in place to hire Islamist fighters, dodge the arms embargo and thereby embolden Al-Qaeda.
The same policy was in place to introduce Arab fighters in Afghanistan to aggravate the Soviet occupation and increase the loss of life in the conflict. We know where that policy has led: Obama Bin Laden and 9/11. Clinton’s Russian and Chinese counterparts made it clear from the start the Libyan option would be ruled out for Syria. Every chance of a political settlement by the Kofi Annan mission was sabotaged by the US, Britain and France. NATO partner Turkey was designated a front state to counteract the Assad regime and give full support to the so-called Free Syrian Army. The porous border with Lebanon and Iraq does the rest for free movement of arms and fighters.
After downing the F-4 Phantom jet which strayed into Syrian air space, the Turks feel strenghtened by support from NATO and has amassed army units at the Syrian northern border. Jordan has been provoking the Syrians and there have been reports Saudi troops and material are amassed in Jordan. A last resort meeting of the UNSC permanent members in Geneva have not resulted in a working compromise for a transition of political power in Syria.
Matters are not getting easier for the Obama administration as large Muslim nations Egypt and Indonesia seem to be supporting the stance taken by Russia and China. US foreign policy has caused the evaporation of any good-will among the Arab nations after removal of the puppet leadership. The only support left for the US are the authoritarian regimes of the Gulf nations, Turkey and Israel. The UAE and Saudi Arabia are falling out with the new democratic leadership of the Brotherhood in Egypt. It seems the Brotherhood have received wholehearted support from the Iranians during the oppression by the Mubarak dictatorship. It’s pay-back time. US Congress and the administration will keep funding the Egyptian military in the faint hope to preserve the Camp David Accords and the €60 billion investment over three decades.
Turkish military convoy heads for Syrian border
(Stuff.co.nz) – Turkish troops and military vehicles have been deployed towards the border with Syria as a precaution after Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan gave orders to react to any Syrian threat approaching the frontier.
Erdogan, who has given shelter in the border area to rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, announced the new rules of engagement for Turkish troops on the border after Syrian air defences shot down a Turkish warplane last Friday.
“I can confirm there are troops being deployed along the border in Hatay province. Turkey is taking precautions after its jet was shot down,” a Turkish official said on condition of anonymity.
He said he did not know how many troops or vehicles were being moved but said they were being stationed in the Yayladagi, Altinozu and Reyhanli border areas of Turkey’s southern Hatay province. He said anti-aircraft guns were also being stationed along the border.
A military convoy of vehicles including anti-aircraft missile launchers from the 5th Mechanised Armoured Brigade left a base in the southeastern city of Gaziantep on Thursday and travelled to neighbouring Kilis province on the border, video from the Turkish Dogan news agency showed.
Roads were closed to traffic as the convoy, escorted by police cars, passed by. Another convoy of about 30 military vehicles, including trucks loaded with missile batteries, left Turkey’s coastal town of Iskenderun on Wednesday and deployed near the Syrian border 50km away, Turkish news agencies said.
Turkish F-16s scramble as Syrian helicopters approach border
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