Michael Snyder
The American Dream
September 13, 2013
Over the past few days, there has been a tremendous wave of optimism
that it may be possible for war with Syria to be averted.
Unfortunately, it appears that a diplomatic solution to the crisis in
Syria is extremely unlikely. Assad is certainly willing to give up his
chemical weapons, but he wants the U.S. to accept a bunch of concessions
that it will never agree to. And it certainly sounds like the Obama
administration has already decided that “diplomacy” is going to fail,
and they continue to position military assets for the upcoming conflict
with Syria. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey are all going to
continue to heavily pressure the Obama administration. They have
invested a huge amount of time and resources into the conflict in Syria,
and they desperately want the U.S. military to intervene. Fortunately,
overwhelming domestic and global opposition to an attack on Syria has
slowed down the march toward war for the moment, but unfortunately that
probably will not be enough to stop it completely. The following are
ten reasons why war is almost certainly coming…
#1 Assad wants a guarantee that he will not be attacked by the United States or by anyone else before he will give up his chemical weapons.
That is extremely unlikely to happen.
#2 Assad is not going to agree to any chemical weapons deal
unless the U.S. stops giving weapons to al-Qaeda terrorists and other
jihadist rebels that are fighting against the Syrian government.
That is extremely unlikely to happen.
In fact, according to the Washington Post, the U.S. has been ramping up the delivery of weapons to jihadist rebels in Syria…
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