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Posted on 12/17/2013 11:24:58 PM PST by cunning_fish
Washington (AFP) - The sectarian bloodbath in Syria is such a threat to regional security that a victory for Bashar al-Assad's regime could be the best outcome to hope for, a former CIA chief said.
Washington condemned Assad's conduct of the conflict, threatened air strikes after he was accused of targeting civilians with chemical weapons and has demanded he step down.
The United States is also supplying millions of dollars in "non-lethal" aid to some of the rebel groups fighting Assad's rule.
But Michael Hayden, the retired US Air Force general who until 2009 was head of the Central Intelligence Agency, said a rebel win was not one of the three possible outcomes he foresees for the conflict...
"Option three is Assad wins," Hayden told the annual Jamestown Foundation conference of terror experts.
"And I must tell you at the moment, as ugly as it sounds, I'm kind of trending toward option three as the best out of three very, very ugly possible outcomes," he said.
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Fine by me...
If Assad wins, the Saudis won’t get their oil pipeline to Europe. Their toady Obama will be spanked by his benefactors, and he will blame someone. Or draw another red line or something. Asshole.
Assad staying in power increases Iran’s hand. And it means less safety for Israel, of course.
Quite the dilemma to have no third option for Syria besides Assad or “al Qa’eda”, though. Thanks to the “dove-ification” of US foreign policy, the only possible third option has dissipated.
If Assad wins, that also means that Syria will have effectively become an Iranian proxy in the region. Still better than al-Qaeda in charge of Syria, I guess.
I suspect one cannot even blame Bush for the fiasco in Syria.
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So much for the Obama reset of foreign relations, the ‘Arab Spring’, the NASA-Muslim initiative, the ‘bowing’ tour and ever so many other policy disasters. Never thought I’d be missing Abu Ghraib!
After successfully pimp slapping Obama and Kerry into
next year, why would they want to get rid of Assad?
He has proven to be a stronger leader than what the US
currently has.
Non-lethal aid my azz.
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