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(Worthy News) - U.S. President Barack Obama and his top foreign policy advisers are expected to meet on Friday to consider their military and other options in Syria as Syrian and Russian aircraft continue to pummel Aleppo and other targets, U.S. officials said.

Some top officials argue the United States must act more forcefully in Syria or risk losing what influence it still has over moderate rebels and its Arab, Kurdish and Turkish allies in the fight against Islamic State, the officials told Reuters.

One set of options includes direct U.S. military action such as air strikes on Syrian military bases, munitions depots or radar and anti-aircraft bases, said one official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. [ Source ]

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2 hours ago, WorthyNewsBot said:

(Worthy News) - U.S. President Barack Obama and his top foreign policy advisers are expected to meet on Friday to consider their military and other options in Syria as Syrian and Russian aircraft continue to pummel Aleppo and other targets, U.S. officials said.

Some top officials argue the United States must act more forcefully in Syria or risk losing what influence it still has over moderate rebels and its Arab, Kurdish and Turkish allies in the fight against Islamic State, the officials told Reuters.

One set of options includes direct U.S. military action such as air strikes on Syrian military bases, munitions depots or radar and anti-aircraft bases, said one official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. [ Source ]

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Herein lies the problem, we really do not know who is a moderate rebel and who is ISIS.  There is no winning hand here for the US. 

If we continue on and do some of the options we are helping those who want to kill us, if we back down it looks like we are afraid of Putin, which only strengthens him.

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5 hours ago, Out of the Shadows said:

Herein lies the problem, we really do not know who is a moderate rebel and who is ISIS.  There is no winning hand here for the US. 

If we continue on and do some of the options we are helping those who want to kill us, if we back down it looks like we are afraid of Putin, which only strengthens him.

I don't disagree in general with this assessment. If we were serious about this from the outset, we should've acted serious about it from the outset, before Russia became so heavily involved (but don't get me wrong, I wouldn't have advocated it then either, just that if we are going to do something we should do it as opposed to half way or 1/4 of the way doing it).

The main thing here to me is that Syria is not worth risking a war with Russia. The faction(s) we were backing to oust Assad seem to be on their last leg and the city that they primarily waged their war from is virtually a destroyed ruin. The argument being made, if I read the above article correctly, is that we need to be militarily aggressive so that we will still have "influence" with "moderate rebels". Simply put, this is a joke. I cannot think of a worse reason than this to risk direct contact with the only country on earth who is a legitimate strategic threat to the United States (due to their massive number of nukes, the number of which ranges anywhere from 4500 to who knows).

This is borderline lunacy. They think if we bomb a bunch of stuff in Syria and, in doing so, invariably kill a bunch of Russians who are located at these sites - that Putin will go back home with his tail between his legs? Is there anything about this man in the 15 years we have dealt with him as a world leader that would lead any rational thinking person to believe that this is how he would react to such a thing? Hopefully, it's just a leaked script for Dr. Strangelove II and not actually serious ideas from policymakers.

 

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9 hours ago, WorthyNewsBot said:

Some top officials argue the United States must act more forcefully in Syria or risk losing what influence it still has over moderate rebels and its Arab, Kurdish and Turkish allies in the fight against Islamic State, the officials told Reuters.

1. Don't trust Reuters any more. 

2. The USA lost its influence in Syria many years ago under Obama.

3. The term "moderate rebels" is a joke.  There are none left in Syria.

4. The so-called "allies" of the USA in Syria are actually Jihadists and terrorists sworn to destroy America, once they finish with Syria.

http://www.infowars.com/wikileaks-hillary-micro-managed-isis/

5. If the USA really cared about the Kurds, it would not have stood by while Turkey committed genocide against them year after year.

Instead of saber-rattling, Obama should publicly apologize to all the innocent Syrians whose lives, homes, and businesses have been destroyed, while he went to play golf. And the USA should leave Syria alone.  It is too late to do anything there. Russia is now more than a match for the United States in Syria.

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24 minutes ago, Steve_S said:

If we were serious about this from the outset, we should've acted serious about it from the outset

There you have it.  Neither the USA nor any other country in the world cared enough about Syrians to deal with this issue after Bashar Hafez al-Assad took office in 2000 (probably because oil was not a factor).  That was a long time ago, and who knows how many millions of innocents have died because of this.  Also the UN and USA have stood by while genocide was committed in country after country.  To whom will they give account except to God?

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