New Video of Assad Brutality (Plus: ‘West Has No Choice but To Win Here’)
Iran seeding permanent chaos is an ugly future, and the West must consider the alternatives. Will the West turn a blind eye to Assad’s massacres, hoping to fight him another day, or will it stop the blackmail and confront Assad with whatever means possible? If President Barack Obama calls for regime change in Syria, will Assad sink? And if he stays afloat, what contingency plans can secure the president’s words?
Further, what roles can countries in the GCC and Israel play? All will suffer greatly if Assad survives and Iran appears to be winning against the West. Another win by Iran will turn the Middle East into a swamp of terror, which may mean even steeper gas costs for U.S. consumers.
U.S. supremacy is being challenged in ways never seen before by the likes of Iran and other countries eager to see the U.S. on its knees. The Europeans, addicted to Russian gas, will have to weigh their options carefully before they start on another path like the one they have taken in Libya. Absent Assad calming the Syrian street without a grand-scale massacre, the Syrian conflict will continue to bubble.
Now that the conflict has been internationalized, the West has no choice but to find a means by which both the Syrian and the Iranian regimes are defeated: it’s in everyone’s interest, including U.S. consumers.
Define ‘winning’.
‘Winning’ like in Iraq? Could be done but is anyone willing to spend trillions of dollars, another half a decade and another 5,000 American lives?
Or ‘winning’ like in Afghanistan-Pakistan?
While Assad is a monster and deserves to burn, I doubt there are any good guys for us to back. When Clinton got us involved in the Serbian/Albanian fight there was a quote from someone in a neighboring country.
“Why are you getting involved? Its a fight between a rat and a snake.” While I wish the common people of Syria all the peace and freedom they desire, I just don’t see any reasonable way for us to help give it to them. Our time and efforts would be better spent in toppling Iran. Syria is a puppet of Iran. Ending the latter would go a long ways to ending the former.
If you want to ‘win’ in Syria we might as well send in Charlie Sheen. Maybe the tiger blooded warlock could change things.
I echo that sentiment: good luck to Syrians – include me out.
I totally agree–see comment #9.
True that. Until they, until just about everyone, gives up their beliefs and their prejudices these people are gonna fight until they do give them up.
Mr. Ghadry, the world’s superpowers know Obama is a paper tiger at best.
Our allied forces are not confident in his decision making and opposing forces have little/no concern of U.S. repercussions.
Obama seems to be TOTALLY clueless with respect to the 2,000 + year old, ‘The Art of War’.
Apparently Obama had read ‘something else’ to obtain his ‘awesome’ military decisions..
If I hear one more clever mention of “The Art of War”, I think I’ll scream.
Can’t we have a one year moratorium on that damn thing and the phrases “wash, rinse and repeat” and “useful idiots” too?
……thanks for reminding me….can’t we eliminate also “boots on the ground”, “moving forward”, “in no way shape or form”, and “at the end of the day”?
….cough….choke….cough.
At the end of the day Ass-ad is a brutal tyrant and puppet of Iran. ‘Let me be very clear’ moving forward and putting boots on the ground is no reflection of the Art of War and wouldn’t matter ‘one iota’ to Obama’s millions of useful idiots in any shape or form. Bbbut-but-bbut, I … ah that’s all folks!
In cyber-space no one can hear you scream..
So it was okay to cheer lead Tahrir Square and force Mubarak and his family to the gallows, but its not okay to whack Assad or even deploy the UN forces already in places like the Golan to secure the cease-fire line? I guess we’ll just wait for Assad’s chemical weapons and missiles to land in the hands of Hizb’Allah, but no matter, Gaddafi is so much more terrible.
This is part of what we used on Gaddafi: http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/blogs/defense/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&newspaperUserId=27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7&plckPostId=Blog%3a27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3a99a33f93-77bd-4b38-8983-79eccfd5e00e&plckScript=blogScript&plckElementId=blogDest We used stealth on Bin Laden and our trusted partners the Pakistanis, but Assad can shoot thousands while pimping for Iran and its okay. I guess if Israel hadn’t landed and destroyed Assad’s nuclear facility, he might be a step closer to his dreams.
The danger of the Muslim Brotherhood or Salafists rising are greater in Egypt than Syria. While the SSNP should be terminated with extreme prejudice, they are not Assad’s only tools. He used AQ to murder American soldiers and recently got nabbed with illegal Iranian arms. He supplies Hizb’Allah who holds Lebanon hostage. May I suggest Totten’s Fatima Gate?
The end of Assad signals the ending of the Iranian reach. Until then he’s the kind of guy who will fire human missiles into Israel to divert attention to his crimes. He kills his own people and blames Israel and the US.
Well, I’m glad I’m not on the side supporting Assad or appearing apathetic in the face of a nefarious and dangerous regime. Assad’s attempt to scapegoat his criminal failures on Jews will not work.
Paul, I wouldn’t be touting the resolve of our allies. Want a cheap English carrier? I think Stuxnet was likely a joint creation. While I am not an Obama groupie, I could imagine worse leadership, can’t you?
And our wonderful allies would already be in bigger trouble via Libya were it not for US capabilities. The French are dropping concrete as their munitions are low.
I feel so gratified that we have such strong leadership at this critical time in the Middle East. Okay, I lied. obama’s failures in the region will prove to be far worse than even jimmy carter’s. The results of obama’s failures will be catastrophic and very long lasting. I truly fear for Israel.
Sorry, thats not an a##kicking.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_B1H-1opys
We can take down Iran any time we want. It’s just a matter of will and burning oil facilities. No cash, no Syria no Hezbollah no Hamas.
The trick is, “when is it worth it to play the card?”
First IO do not see how we can win there and second where did you find that white Ronny king tape.
Arabs beating up on Arabs!
So WHAT??
Are the people leading the demonstrations any amenable to making peace with Israel? Are they pro-western? Are they any better than the scum they wish to replace?
I seriously doubt it!
Scum Arabs were, scum Arabs are and scum Arabs will always be!