Ali Alsayed, 18, of Syria, demonstrates in front of the White House in Washington Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012.
/ AP Photo/Haraz N. GhanbariAmerica's interests in Syria are largely tied to a post-Cold War, still-evolving mission of "promoting freedom" around the world, as well as its role as the world's only superpower.
President Assad never publicly antagonized America like Libya's Muammar Qaddafi, nor did his government ever provide overt support for anti-American terrorism, although there is plenty of evidence Syria aided militias and groups in neighboring Iraq fighting against American forces. Additionally, Syria is not a major supplier of oil or other natural resources to America.
Still, since the start of the Arab Spring the Obama administration has cautiously and somewhat inconsistently (see: Bahrain) thrown its support behind the popular movements seeking to topple the region's autocratic regimes, and Syria seems to have evolved into a conflict where it is easy for the U.S. to pick sides.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is one of the key players in the "Friends of Syria" group, and any aid package, military or otherwise, will likely have large amounts of American resources involved.
At the beginning of the Syria conflict a year ago, the Obama administration merely called for a peaceful resolution. Now it is firmly demanding that Assad step down.
david393071 said, "That is NOT the reason for this "Rebellion". In 2010 US Ally Turkey Attacked the Main Islamic Jihadist Training Camps that are directly supported by Fundamentalist Islamic Iran with Iranian Military Advisers... RESULTS MATTER NOT OPINIONS.
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"David", many of your specifics are accurate, but your argument is not. You clearly are not a native American, nor is your perspective.
From all appearances, you have a heavy axe to grind (as our expression goes), and there is a great deal of hidden agenda in your comments. Accordingly, we American readers might well suspect your own efforts in this CBS forum support the current Israeli campaign to attack and neuter Iran.
Turkey's scattering of Iranian Islamic Jihad camps does not automatically spearhead a revolution-- "jihadi", "people's" or otherwise. And to make your case, you must apply huge discredit to efforts of other, non-jihadi / non-Iran-supported groups involved in the Arab Spring, the final outcome of which-- like so many other things in the MidEast now-- is still pending.
Israel's current disinformation campaign against Iran has gone so far as to claim the recent assassination of an Iranian engineer was a measure to reduce the Iranian nuclear threat. That engineer, unfortunately, was not connected with any evidence of nuclear weapons research, even if his death does lead directly to Israeli terror (disguised as "counter-terrorism"). And so it goes.
BTW, did you have any AIPAC publications to offer?
david393071 said, "That is NOT the reason for this "Rebellion". In 2010 US Ally Turkey Attacked the Main Islamic Jihadist Training Camps that are directly supported by Fundamentalist Islamic Iran with Iranian Military Advisers... RESULTS MATTER NOT OPINIONS.
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"David", many of your specifics are accurate, but your argument is not. You clearly are not a native American, nor is your perspective.
From all appearances, you have a heavy axe to grind (as our expression goes), and there is a great deal of hidden agenda in your comments. Accordingly, we American readers might well suspect your own efforts in this CBS forum support the current Israeli campaign to attack and neuter Iran.
Turkey's scattering of Iranian Islamic Jihad camps does not automatically spearhead a revolution-- "jihadi", "people's" or otherwise. And to make your case, you must apply huge discredit to efforts of other, non-jihadi / non-Iran-supported groups involved in the Arab Spring, the final outcome of which-- like so many other things in the MidEast now-- is still pending.
Israel's current disinformation campaign against Iran has gone so far as to claim the recent assassination of an Iranian engineer was a measure to reduce the Iranian nuclear threat. That engineer, unfortunately, was not connected with any evidence of nuclear weapons research, even if his death does lead directly to Israeli terror (disguised as "counter-terrorism"). And so it goes.
BTW, did you have any AIPAC publications to offer?