{"id":14193,"date":"2015-11-05T14:07:43","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T19:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14193"},"modified":"2015-11-05T14:07:43","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T19:07:43","slug":"dear-fellow-americans-do-you-have-any-idea-whats-being-done-in-your-name-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14193","title":{"rendered":"Dear Fellow Americans: Do You Have Any Idea What\u2019s Being Done In Your Name In Syria?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Fellow Americans: Do You Have Any Idea What\u2019s Being Done In Your Name In Syria?<\/a><\/h3>\n
Americans have some vague understanding that the U.S. wants Syria\u2019s Assad to go, while Russia wants him to stay.<\/div>\n
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And Americans know that the U.S. \u201cwar against ISIS\u201d hasn\u2019t done much, while the Russians have been pounding Syrian targets with jets.<\/p>\n

But Americans have no idea that the U.S. is deploying fighter jets designed solely to engage in plane-to-plane dogfighting \u2026 in order to\u00a0counter the Russians<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And we don\u2019t understand that the U.S. is arming the Syrian \u201crebels\u201d with should-fired anti-aircraft weapons. As the Wall Street Journal\u00a0\u00a0reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The U.S. and its regional allies agreed to increase shipments of weapons and other supplies to help moderate Syrian rebels hold their ground and challenge the intervention of Russia and Iran on behalf of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, U.S. officials and their counterparts in the region said.<\/div>\n

The deliveries from the Central Intelligence Agency, Saudi Arabia and other allied spy services deepen the fight between the forces battling in Syria, despite President Barack Obama\u2019s public pledge to not let the conflict become a U.S.-Russia proxy war.<\/p>\n

Saudi officials not only pushed for the White House to keep the arms pipeline open, but also warned the administration against backing away from a longstanding demand that Mr. Assad must leave office.<\/p>\n

In the past month of intensifying Russian airstrikes, the CIA and its partners have increased the flow of military supplies to rebels in northern Syria, including of U.S.-made TOW antitank missiles, these officials said<\/strong>. Those supplies will continue to increase in coming weeks, replenishing stocks depleted by the regime\u2019s expanded military offensive.<\/p>\n

An Obama administration official said the military pressure is needed to push Mr. Assad from power.<\/p>\n

\u201cAssad is not going to feel any pressure to make concessions if there is no viable opposition that has the capacity, through the support of its partners, to put pressure on his regime,\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>the official said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Dear Fellow Americans: Do You Have Any Idea What\u2019s Being Done In Your Name In Syria? Americans have some vague understanding that the U.S. wants Syria\u2019s Assad to go, while Russia wants him to stay. And Americans know that the U.S. \u201cwar against ISIS\u201d hasn\u2019t done much, while the Russians have been pounding Syrian targets […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[35,135,584,1150,694,776,827,862,5510],"class_list":["post-14193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-assad","tag-cia","tag-obama","tag-proxy-war","tag-russia","tag-syria","tag-united-states","tag-war","tag-washingtons-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14194,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14193\/revisions\/14194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}