{"id":32081,"date":"2018-03-08T08:18:58","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T13:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32081"},"modified":"2018-03-08T08:18:58","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T13:18:58","slug":"the-us-ponders-a-strike-against-syrian-government-forces-whats-behind-this-aggressive-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32081","title":{"rendered":"The US Ponders a Strike Against Syrian Government Forces: What\u2019s Behind This Aggressive Approach?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The US Ponders a Strike Against Syrian Government Forces: What\u2019s Behind This Aggressive Approach?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n

The US\u00a0is considering<\/a>\u00a0the option of military action against Syria. The alleged use of chemical weapons (CW) by the Syrian government, which is not backed by any solid evidence, is to serve as the pretext. Syrian President Assad is going to be \u201cpunished.\u201d On March 6, US President Trump and Israeli PM Netanyahu\u00a0discussed<\/a>\u00a0the threat posed by Iran\u2019s presence in Syria and ways to counter it.<\/p>\n

Chemical weapons? But why should Syria\u2019s President Assad use them if he has had no trouble winning with conventional weapons wherever he goes? Couldn\u2019t the rebels be using CW? Instances of that have been uncovered and confirmed. But no, US officials don\u2019t even bother to give a passing thought to such \u201cunimportant and irrelevant\u201d considerations. They know better who to blame and who deserves to be made to pay for the wrongdoings they believe have taken place. In April, 2017, the US\u00a0delivered a missile strike<\/a>\u00a0against a Syrian military facility, in flagrant violation of international law.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s worth noting that a group of US senators visited Israel in late February. According to them, a conflict between Israel and the pro-Iranian forces in southern Lebanon\u00a0was\u00a0<\/a>imminent<\/a>\u00a0and that fighting would likely encompass Syria as well. Israel\u00a0has been increasing<\/a>\u00a0its support of proxy groups in Syria recently.<\/p>\n

Senator Lindsey Graham\u00a0believes<\/a>\u00a0that Tehran is \u201ctesting\u201d the US and Israel and that the administration\u00a0is not doing enough<\/a>\u00a0to push back against Iran in Syria and throughout the Middle East.<\/p>\n

On Feb. 28, just three days before Israeli PM Netanyahu arrived in the US on March 4, Fox News offered its audience an exclusive\u00a0report<\/a>\u00a0on a military base being built by Iran in Syria. It claimed this information was evidence that Tehran was preparing for a permanent presence in the country.<\/p>\n

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The US Ponders a Strike Against Syrian Government Forces: What\u2019s Behind This Aggressive Approach? The US\u00a0is considering\u00a0the option of military action against Syria. The alleged use of chemical weapons (CW) by the Syrian government, which is not backed by any solid evidence, is to serve as the pretext. Syrian President Assad is going to be […]<\/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":[3218,2928,441,1049,16490,8203,776,827],"class_list":["post-32081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-bashar-al-assad","tag-chemical-weapons","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-peter-korzun","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-syria","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32081","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=32081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32082,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32081\/revisions\/32082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}