AZJoe
11-12-2016, 11:06 PM
Obama Changes Syria Policy Because of Trump's Election
Obama has ordered American air attacks on the Al-Nusra Front in Syria. Up to now, that has not been his policy. This anti-Assad outfit is “Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, formerly known as the Al-Nusra Front, al-Qaeda in Syria, or al-Qaeda in the Levant”. This is a major shift in U.S. policy.
As long as Obama thought that Clinton was going to win, he didn’t take this step … He also didn’t bomb Al-Nusra because it didn’t comport with what his Secretary of Defense, Ash Carter, wanted. … They have been willing to look the other way while extremist Muslim groups like Al-Nusra carried the fighting against Assad’s forces.
But now that Trump has won, Obama no longer feels this obligation to Clinton or defensiveness toward Carter. He is also going against the CIA in doing this.
It’s remarkable that for months Obama’s administration has criticized Russia for attacking Al-Nusra forces and now it’s doing the same; and the U.S. for years has supported these extremist Muslim forces …
Obama sees also the handwriting on the wall, that Assad will eventually turn his forces against Al-Nusra … Ordering American air power into the fray is designed to give the U.S. some leverage in the politics …
https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/obama-shifts-syrian-policy-trumps-election/
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President Obama has ordered the Pentagon to begin conducting military strikes against the leadership of the al–Qaeda-linked Nusra Front … The Islamist group is closely aligned with several US-armed rebel factions, which has long kept the US from launching attacks on them. …
The US … reticence to target them cannot be understated. Indeed, the Obama Administration has spent much of the past two months railing against the Russian government for conducting airstrikes against Nusra targets. …
the group’s close ties with several US-armed groups has complicated matters greatly, as often they share bases of operations, meaning attacks on Nusra Front bases also target US-backed groups.
the State Department and CIA, who believe that, as they are one of the few rebel groups successful at fighting the Assad government, they ought to leave them alone for the sake of eventually imposing regime change …
http://news.antiwar.com/2016/11/10/obama-orders-attacks-on-al-qaedas-nusra-front-in-syria/
Obama has ordered American air attacks on the Al-Nusra Front in Syria. Up to now, that has not been his policy. This anti-Assad outfit is “Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, formerly known as the Al-Nusra Front, al-Qaeda in Syria, or al-Qaeda in the Levant”. This is a major shift in U.S. policy.
As long as Obama thought that Clinton was going to win, he didn’t take this step … He also didn’t bomb Al-Nusra because it didn’t comport with what his Secretary of Defense, Ash Carter, wanted. … They have been willing to look the other way while extremist Muslim groups like Al-Nusra carried the fighting against Assad’s forces.
But now that Trump has won, Obama no longer feels this obligation to Clinton or defensiveness toward Carter. He is also going against the CIA in doing this.
It’s remarkable that for months Obama’s administration has criticized Russia for attacking Al-Nusra forces and now it’s doing the same; and the U.S. for years has supported these extremist Muslim forces …
Obama sees also the handwriting on the wall, that Assad will eventually turn his forces against Al-Nusra … Ordering American air power into the fray is designed to give the U.S. some leverage in the politics …
https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/obama-shifts-syrian-policy-trumps-election/
…
President Obama has ordered the Pentagon to begin conducting military strikes against the leadership of the al–Qaeda-linked Nusra Front … The Islamist group is closely aligned with several US-armed rebel factions, which has long kept the US from launching attacks on them. …
The US … reticence to target them cannot be understated. Indeed, the Obama Administration has spent much of the past two months railing against the Russian government for conducting airstrikes against Nusra targets. …
the group’s close ties with several US-armed groups has complicated matters greatly, as often they share bases of operations, meaning attacks on Nusra Front bases also target US-backed groups.
the State Department and CIA, who believe that, as they are one of the few rebel groups successful at fighting the Assad government, they ought to leave them alone for the sake of eventually imposing regime change …
http://news.antiwar.com/2016/11/10/obama-orders-attacks-on-al-qaedas-nusra-front-in-syria/