The body of the U.N. decreed that Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad is likely guilty of major war crimes in his efforts to squash the Arab Spring uprising that spread to Syria. There is no way the coalition of the leaders of the Arab League, the United States, the European Union and Canada are ever going to let this guy stay in power after such a declaration.

SYRIA, A POST-WORLD WAR TWO EUROPEAN FAILED EXPERIMENT

SAME OLD CROOKS doing the SAME OLD crimes,getting away the same OLD way,same OLD lies,same OLD thieves.
The worlds biggest PAWN SHOP is Isreal,and the worlds biggest trouble maker are her enablers in Washington D.C.!
VOTE for TRUMP is a VOTE for TRUTH!

U.S. Needs another war! $$$$$$$$$$$$ It will take focus off its $18.1T Dollar Debt that has already surpassed its limit months ago.Rally around the flag pole.LOL!

Assad backs Hezbollah, which is Israel's enemy. Israel has instructed the US to get rid of Assad. That is all there is to this.

The mission is to topple the Assad Regime so Russia has much less influence there. And to give the IMF control of the area which is why Saddam got the ax.

And once a government favorable to the US and Western powers is installed a pipeline from Turkey and other Middle Eastern countries can be run directly to Europe which further nixes Russia’s power over the area.

Of course the neocons meddling in the Middle Eastern States, along with nation building, results in very bad, unintended consequences. But the elites don’t care as long as they get their bottom line.

It sure doesn't look to me like they will get that bottom line. It looks more like the unintended consequences will blow up in their face.

Unfortunately, it will be in most of American's face and the Elite will have their parachutes.

Agreed: the mission is chaos in the Middle East so that U.S. oil companies can control all the oil, and eventually the Zionists can claim their fantasy Greater Israel out of the rubble. And meanwhile, we've smitten all their enemies. Isis/IS/IL/etc. are our proxy mercenary forces. When we "accidentally" dropped supplies on ISIS groups five weeks in a row last January, that became all too obvious. It looks like every intelligence agency in the U.S. has their own proxy ISIS group that they use for their own purposes. Thus, when one group got trained, and was immediately ambushed by another group on the way to Syria, that then absorbed the survivors, that was one intelligence agency taking the pieces of another. We can end the war tomorrow if we just defund them all.

President Assad has never requested US or nato intervention with ISIS inside of Syria. Us and nato incursions into Syria are an act of war! The US and nato are committing war crimes and crimes against humanity!

their there for what they do best murder mayhem and kill anything that moves including their own for bad propaganda only used on the mentally disabled making plenty of enemies everyday, the policy of the stupid continues in the land of the total clueless

Hmmm

9-11 was of course the "Pearl Harbor type event" demanded by the neocons/dual citizen israelis who wrote the Project for a New American Century already mentioned. This was why Israel attacked NY on 9-11. This is also why Israel spent decades infiltrating every key department of every critical part of the Federal government in Washington using dual citizen Israelis prior to 9-11. The disproportionate number of dual citizen Israelis in the upper echelons of our Federal government is also why there was never any legitimate investigation of 9-11. It is also why all the obvious suspects like the dozens of Israeli Mossad agents caught on 9-11 where almost immediately let go. It is why half the US Congress is committing treason in the charge to protect and support Israel at all costs. It is why America turns a blind eye to Israel's war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide and Apartheid and terrorism while we destroyed 3/4 of the entire region ostensibly for exactly the same reason.

All of this and much, much more was needed to con the American people into excepting, funding and dying for the invasion, destruction and regime change in every single Middle Eastern Country standing between Israel and its zionist leader's wet dreams of a Jewish only empire from sea to sea. That has been the “mission” for the last 2 decades: Get America to pay for, fight for and die for the Zionist’s new empire in the Middle East. And people that is exactly what the Zionists have gotten. And America and the American people have gotten the shaft.

"The Project for the New American Centuary (PNAC a Neocon think-tank)
lobbied for the removal of Saddam Husseins Baath party in Iraq. When
George W Bush took office, the Neocons took over U.S foreign policy.
These people aren't fools, they understod that Iran would take control
of Iraq through their Shia proxies in Iraq when the Baath party was
removed and that this would ignite a sectarian war in Iraq that would
spread throughout the Middle East."

With the war, neocons knew they were going to set up permanent bases in Iraq, to add to the permanent bases set up on the other side of Iran, in Afghanistan. Iran squeeze play. With permanent bases in Iraq, it would have been difficult for Iran to take control of Iraq.

The sectarian war was quelled after the surge.

Obama then pulled all the troops out, eliminating the permanent bases. Maleki promoted sectarian divisiveness toward the Sunnis, thus the situation reverted again.

I don't think the Bush administration threw the Baathists out, to start a sectarian war, so that 4,500 Americans could be killed and the democrats would take congress, over.

"Iraq demanded under Irans influence that the U.S army would leave Iraq
and it was actually Bush who signed the agreement with Iraq to withdraw
the U.S army from Iraq."

In terms of the major force, that may be true, but Obama was negotiating an agreement for a residual force. I believe Maleki wanted at least 10,000 and Obama said he wanted just 1,500. Obama also wanted the agreement approved by the parliament, which was seemingly a step beyond the normal process.

Obama blamed Iraq for no deal, but by the look of it, Obama sabotaged the chance of any troops remaining in Iraq, as he wanted out. After the exit was accomplished, the administration gloated about how they got the troops out of Iraq.

"What the hell is the mission?"

Many of those involved have different ideas about what the mission is. For Israel (and Israel's strongest supporters in Washington) the preferred aim is to break up Syria so that there is no Syria left to return the Golan Heights to. Although Israel occupies the Golan, its occupation has not been internationally sanctioned as a permanent annexation. Of course they could solve this dilemma peacefully by simply 'buying' the part of the Golan that Israel really needs - water and security. Water comes from the Sea of Galilee while security could be established by placing international peacekeepers on the Heights. Even though US taxpayers would end up with the tab, it would less costly than war.

Turkey would also like to get a chunk of Syria while making sure that the Kurds do not. Jordan will want a share too.

However, changing borders is not something you do lightly and no party is going to admit that a breakup is the plan. Rather, the undisclosed plan is a de-facto breakup. Russia, however, may have other ideas and they may bring in some Iranians.

The US deserves every bit of misery as long as the population does not stand up to depose a dictator like Obama who is willing to sponsor terrorists like ISIS and Al Quaida. Assad was not even hostile to the US just didn't want to sign on the gas pipe. And who are Obama's best friends? Turkey that is bombing the Kurds who are the only ones fighting ISIS. Well earned Noble Peace Prize.

Although the pkk actually started killing turks before the bombing runs took place in apparent retailiation for the bombing of a pkk demonstration perpetrated by isis who they think the turks support or helped perpetrate the attack.

The peshmerga kurds are untouched.

it's all about oil pipelines. There is one planned across Georgia, Chechnya etc from the 'Stans and one in the works across syria and turkey. I couldn't find the map that had a bunch of "proposed" pipelines drawn on it. Ukraine sits on a HUGE pocket of nat gas. if it comes to market Russia is toast, so Putey is doing all he can to destabilize Ukraine and the US/West wants the cheap nat gas so they are trying to keep Russian influence out. Putey is in Syria cause it will stop a pipeline that will under cut Russia's oil market, the west wants the cheap fuel and the ability to bypass the Straits of Hormuz. I wish I could find the map.wherever there is a pipeline crossing, choke point, port or terminal- Shazaam, there'a conflict. The same reason as to why China/Japan/Vietnam/US etc etc are going at it in the South China Sea - undersea oil and gas reserves. It isn't just the west meddling it's everyone who either wants energy prices up or energy prices down. Why is China in Africa if not to grab resources? Wars over resources, like that's a new idea.

Well, we've got The Pentagon running our military and the Federal Reserve running our economy, what could go wrong? Just wait until the IRS is running our healthcare system under Obamacare

last time I checked, the Pentagon IS SUPPOSED to run the military. and it's the CIVILIAN authority, not the military, that decides where the Army goes.

the military would love to invade Cuba and Iran, but we aren't there.

Civilians? Like who, Gen. Petraeus' mistress? That's the problem. The military would love to retreat back to US domiciled bases and remain at peace. That's what the military people want.

While Assad may not have been a great ruler, the US wants rid of him cuz he won't join the World Banking system-the US needs to install a 'friendly' leader, no matter how corrupt he may be

The mission is primarily twofold (and there are several 3,4,5, folds)

1. To have the war, it's never to end it, though that may happen accidentally, how else is the MIC to be fed?

2. To replace stable nation Muslim states with disorganized terrorist lands unable to resist the territorial ambitions of the Khazar land-thieves.

The Administration seems more concerned with making people believe the foreign and domestic policies are successful than actually having any real success:
http://www.thedailybeast.co...

Mish, great article, but the CIA CREATED ISIS to topple Assad and ultimately Iran. It won't happen, and they will attack us first.

WW3 will make you pee and wee-wee.

The Fed is now in panic mode, and is turning to it's Pentagon Subsidiary for assistance. Must-get-GDP-up-at -any-cost.

Yep, they'll sacrifice the last American being burnt to a nuclear crisp in our cities in order to fight for their petrodollar and pipelines, although ultimately this is about the globalists using the U.S. and Russia to destroy each other. Finals will be China vs. the anti-christ in the valley of decision (Megiddo).

really we are mostly ignorant peons to be fired-or murdered at will

First proposed by Qatar in 2009, the natural gas pipeline would run through Syria’s Aleppo and Turkey unto Europe. However, Assad dampened this dream in 2011 when he instead forged a pact with Iraq and Iran to run an “Islamic pipeline” eastward to the European market.

http://blogs.timesofisrael....

What is the mission? Welfare for warfare companies.

To be cynical

War, war, glorious war!
It's none of your business
what you're fighting for!
It's taxes for you
and payoffs for me*
all in the name of Liberty!

*outcome only available to elected federal officials.

Or, as stated in the Star Spangled Banner (2nd verse) "Then conquer we must, if our cause it is just, and this is our motto: In God Is Our Trust."

If it's "nation building" then it's UNBELIEVABLY incompetent.
If it's an empire spreading death , destruction and chaos to produce weakness in the middle east , then the plan is working wonderfully.
The incompetence excuse is great because no one wants to hang a bumbling fool. Look how well Gilligan survived.

Israel is happy. The US is 'cleaning' the area so that a Jewish superstate can take over...soon

it is definitely not nation building. American special forces snipers shoot innocent civilians for practice everywhere they go. Probably the Russkies do it, too.

Hmmm, based upon a hunch, I Google searched on the keywords, Syria, oil, gas, pipeline and found this:

http://www.mintpressnews.co...

Excerpt: "It’s the oil, gas and pipelines, stupid!"

Isn't it nearly always ultimately about exactly that in the ME?

The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power

http://www.amazon.com/Prize...

Yes, and the petrodollar, the currency it is sold in.

Can someone explain to me why the US administration thinks al qaeda is a better alternative to Assad?

because they control al qaeda and not assad.

They may be helping al qaeda but they don't control it.

the regime in Washington is corrupt, inbred, and provincial.