Ten years of a continuous operation of plans - of U.S. neoconservative and “new world/one world” types - getting approval for U.S. official support from within and without the U.S. government, allied with the Saudis, funding mostly from the U.S. (including U.S. foundations) and Saudis - is what opportunistically kicked this thing off - from outside Syria - deciding that they could take advantage of the “Arab Spring” to make it all look like a mere spontaneous and majority desired uprising [what was new or changed about conditions in Syria at the time? - nothing], while whether the Saudis’ lackeys - U.S. policy makers - realized it or not, better minds in the region KNEW that the timing of the “kick off” was not for operational victory of the “uprising” but to create the base of martyrs from which the legitimacy of and participation in the opposition could be built.
It was a given to those who understood Assad and understood both Syria and Lebanon that Assad WOULD react as violently as he could to ANY major threat, and if you were not prepared to actually counter that (if you were not to expect outside direct military support) then you were prepared to die.
Obama is getting away with pretending to the Arab street and the world’s sheeple that unlike Iraq HIS hands are clean, with regard to all the civilian deaths in Syria - but only because the work of who we are involved with, and the facts of how closely we are working, is all behind the scenes and American forces are not “doing the killing” - the killing that was inevitable with the timing of the outside-generated initiation of the opposition plans.
Meanwhile, just like Iraq, any victory is not going to be “ours”, as the final composition of any new government WILL NOT be aligned as closely with our interests as they will be against them. That’s the ONLY THING that is sure.
The whole thing will, when the history of it is completely opened, be seen as a stinking mess created by a premature birth, induced from outside the womb by foreign policy doctors who decided it was time. It’s not Americas’ finest hour.
Thanks for the regurgitation of a string of ridiculous conspiracy theory buzzwords.