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Dozens of U.S. diplomats have urged bombings of President Bashar Assad's forces in Syria in order to make him more likely to step down. The memo, sent to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, was not necessarily intended to be public, and was sent through a "dissent channel":
More than 50 U.S. State Department officials have signed an internal memo calling for a change in the way the United States approaches Syria — specifically, advocating military pressure on Bashar Assad's regime to push him toward the negotiating table.
The diplomats expressed their opposition to the current U.S. policy through a cable on the State Department's dissent channel — which exists for just that reason. But NPR's Michele Kelemen reports that it's unusual for so many officials to sign on to such a cable. "Secretary of State John Kerry says he respects the process and will study their views," Michele tells our Newscast unit.
"The cable reportedly calls for targeted military strikes against the Assad regime, something the Obama administration has been reluctant to do," she reports. "Such action would also put the U.S. on a collision course with Russia at a time that Moscow is backing the Assad regime — and working with Secretary Kerry on a cease-fire and a diplomatic path that has faltered."
The New York Times , which has seen a copy of the memo, reports that the diplomats say they aren't advocating a confrontation with Russia. But a credible military threat against Assad is necessary to pressure him to negotiate, the officials argue. "The moral rationale for taking steps to end the deaths and suffering in Syria, after five years of brutal war, is evident and unquestionable. ... The status quo in Syria will continue to present increasingly dire, if not disastrous, humanitarian, diplomatic and terrorism-related challenges," the cable says, according to the Times.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by tisI on Sunday June 19 2016, @12:10AM
You are not alone in asking WTF is going on with Syria, America, and US political rhetoric.
Unfortunately you will not get any truth out of the american political propaganda media stream.
Syria is the last obstacle in American efforts to get a natural gas pipeline through the middle-east to European gas supply hubs in Turkey. The US is funding ISIS (yes, those wacky lovable terrorists that want only to kill your children) and the soviets are backing Assad's regime. The largest remaining gas pocket on the planet is below Iran and Qatar. American corporations want to tap out of Qatar. The Soviest want to tap out of Iran. It all boils down to a pissing contest between the US & Russa.
None of this has anything to do with "fighting terror".
Your favorite elected official (actually every last cocksucker in DC) is actually a puppy on a leash. A whore if you will. The holder-of-the-leash/master is Monsanto, Dow Chemical, General Mills, Exxon, Carlyle Group, Halliburton, the entire collective insurance industry, Utility Corporations, Kroch Bros, etc, etc. All the important people are being well taken care of, corporations are people now, by the bastards you cast your ballots for.
Were does that leave you?
Your favorite republican asswipes this last go-round handed Americans a turd called "Healthcare Reform" that the insurance lobby wrote. You are now obligated to pay the insurance industry an insanely high monthly fee for absolutely nothing in return. Even if your job has been off shored to China by the same bastards, and you're unemployed. Now you have the most expensive and shittiest health care system in the world. Pretty sweet deal the the insurance corporations though.
So, basically you are being sodomized every-single-day by the government you allowed to happen, right before your eyes, while you were busy catching all the latest episodes of Dancing with the Stars, The Real Bush People Of Alaska, and letting Fox and Fiends turn your mind into mush.
.. the short version
"Suppose you were an idiot...and suppose you were a member of Congress...but I repeat myself."