US President Barack Obama’s National Security Advisor asked the President to present a new strategy for the war against IS, after reaching the understanding that the current method has failed. According to the reports, the only way in order to defeat Islamic State is to overthrow Assad as well and that it is not possible to operate against the terror group in both Iraq and Syria separately.Just fucking wow.
Over the last week, the National Security Council held four meetings in the White House, which was attended by top officials including President Barack Obama and US Secretary of State John Kerry. “The purpose of these meetings was to examine how we are going to coordinate our strategy against IS in Syria. The President asked how to examine how things so they fit together. The long war in Syria together with the desire to defeat IS was until now separated and it was not the correct action,” a senior level US official stated.
Regarding the Civil War in Syria, Washington, DC had hoped that training and arming moderate rebels to fight against IS will also allow them to defeat Assad, but this strategy has not proved itself on the ground. The moderate rebels have been fighting on two fronts, both against Assad and the Islamists, resulting in them failing to effectively fight against both. “Ultimately, the Iraq first strategy did not work,” the senior level source stated.
“The Syrian opposition has proven that it cannot deal with IS, which is still in northern Syria despite the incessant fighting,” he stated. One of the options now under consideration is the establishment of restricted flight zones south of the Turkish border or changing the support for moderate rebels to include increased US assistance.
An expanded war in Syria with no one looking at worse case scenarios, the cost of rebuilding this nation will be on our shoulders alone...And in the end the Middle East will be as fucked up as it always has been.
What do I recommend? Pull out the lawn chairs, crack open a bottle and watch the shit burn.
More combat in the Middle East? We're going to go broke fighting for people that won't fight for themselves. This shit needs to stop!
