Even the Free Syrian Army that is supposed to contain the moderate rebels Obama
always praises refuses to join the coalition against the Islamic State and in
some areas has even adopted tactical agreements not to attack each other.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/politics/op-ed-fsa-rebels-reject-joining-coalition-against-the-islamic-state/article/403820
Blog: http://kenthink7.blogspot.com/index.html
Blog: http://kencan7.blogspot.com/index.html
On Monday, September 15, 2014 10:40 PM, Marv Gandall <[email protected]>
wrote:
Here is link:
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/9/15/why-syria-is-thegordianknotofobamasantiisilcampaign.html
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Marv Gandall <[email protected]>
> Date: September 15, 2014 at 11:29:59 PM EDT
> To: Pen-L Economics <[email protected]>, LBO
> <[email protected]>, Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition
> <[email protected]>
> Subject: Joshua Landis on the US air campaign against ISIL
>
> A US-led air campaign won't be able to defeat the Islamic State (ISIL) inside
> Syria, says Joshua Landis of the University of Oklahoma, writing in Al
> Jazeera.
>
> Ground forces are needed to wrest control of the cities and countryside held
> by ISIL, and while US and allied air power can support offensives by the
> Iraqi army and the Kurds against the Islamic State in Iraq, the US has no
> comparable proxy forces on the ground in Syria. The Obama administration is
> hostile to the Assad regime and the two major Islamist militias which oppose
> both the regime and ISIL.
>
> Administration efforts over the past three years to cobble together an
> effective pro-Western fighting force from fragments of the Syrian opposition
> and their rival regional sponsors have been spectacular failures, and Landis
> doesn't believe its stepped up political and military push in the wake of
> ISIL's rise is more likely to meet with success.
>
>
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