December 09, 2024
Fall of Syria Tied to Israel's War
Timothy Birdnow
Well,well, well....looks like Bibi Netanyahu had a hand in the fall of Assad.
FTA:
Naturally this Yahoo article twisted like a pretzel to deny Bibi any credit for this, finding some academics (who undoubtedly support the liberals in Israel) to dismiss the notion.
Uh, Citrinowicz, Sun Tzu said and I quote "opportunities multiply as they are seized" and Netanyahu seized them. I rather suspect he knew that putting this kind of pressure on Iran and Hizbollah would undermine Assad and the Syrian regime, who were also friends to the terrorists in the West Bank and Gaza.
The leftist media can never just give credit where credit is due when it's a formally disavowed person involved.
Another source quoted in the article pointed out it's like dominoes; one falls and the others topple along with it.
Frankly, I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn the Mossad was working with some of the rebels and aided them in the attack.
At any rate, this has always been the way to handle this, yet for 76 years it's been negotiate and pull back, offer concessions and let the terrorists rearm and reorganize. And in so doing Tin horn potentates like Assad could hold toy soldier empires because they faced no real resistance and helped aid those groups that attacked Israel with foreign aid. Now with the squeeze on we learn none of this situation was at all real or natural and would have fallen of it's own weight had the great powers - most notably America - stayed the hell out of it. But America restrained Israel for decades out of fear of the Soviets coming in and world war, and then just out of habit and a desire to maintain stability for Arab oil. Now there is an entrenched "peace process professional class" who keep trying the same things over and over and getting the same results. Nobody really wants to solve the problem.
Netanyahu does. Now too does President Trump. And we are seeing the problem solve itself before our very eyes just by some decisive action and willingness to fight this out.
Another of my favorites from Sun Tzu is this:
It works in warfare or politics equally. Sadly the Republicans never understood that and that is why they were so bumbling. They feared taking the fight to the enemy,and when they did they but dipped a toe in the water, finding it chilly they withdrew and got creaned.
Israel was often that way too when it came to Hamas and Hezbollah and other such groups. But the current P.M. is made of sterner stuff and understands you don't go in half-heartedly. It's do, ordo not (to quote Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back).
So Israel has gone on the offensive in a big way and all sorts of amazing things are now happening. This is not coincidence.
Look; this stuff just isn't that complicated. It only appears complicated because we have an academic class that muddies the waters all the time and devices all sorts of Rube Goldberg machines that ultimately do nothing of any use. It justifies their jobs as consultants.
Take a look at Reagan and the U.S.S.R.; for decades we fiddled around with policies devised by "experts" such as George Kennan's "containment" strategy and in the meantime we propped the Soviets up, giving them food and treating them like civilized men when in fact they were just barbarians. We twisted ourselves into pretzels with a series of arms reduction treaties, with multiple alliances like NATO or SEATO, with all the spy v. spy nonsense. But all we had to do was compete with them economically and they folded. Reagan knew that is how it would go and he was right. So simple and many folks here in flyover country knew that was how it would go all along. But try telling academics that, or bureaucrats whose jobs depended on the military industrial complex.
And in the process we became the very evil we were resisting. Eisenhower warned that could happen. Ike warned as much about the rising power of academia and the technocrats as he did about the military and big corporations. He was right.
All of this could have been avoided had we just squeezed the Soviets harder economically. But then men like Armand Hammer were helping to craft policy towards the Russians and they wanted Russia to succeed.
So we see here yet again how simple it is. It just takes the courage to do it.
Well,well, well....looks like Bibi Netanyahu had a hand in the fall of Assad.
FTA:
"Speaking while under growing domestic pressure over the fate of Israeli hostages in Gaza and a corruption trial, Netanyahu said Assad's demise was "a direct result of the blows we have inflicted on Iran and Hezbollah, Assad's main supporters".'
Naturally this Yahoo article twisted like a pretzel to deny Bibi any credit for this, finding some academics (who undoubtedly support the liberals in Israel) to dismiss the notion.
"Danny Citrinowicz, a research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, told AFP that while it was true Israel helped precipitate events in Syria, Assad's fall was an unintended consequence.
"It's obvious that what Israel did has definitely led to that, but I doubt that they had a strategy to do so," he said.
Netanyahu warned Assad on November 27, the day Syria's rebel offensive began, that he was "playing with fire" by supporting Hezbollah and helping to transfer weapons to Lebanon.
"But, he never knew that Jolani intended to start an attack," Citrinowicz said, referring to Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, the Islamist chief of the rebel group that led the offensive in Syria.
"And, of course, nobody calculated how the fact that Iran and Hezbollah were so weakened would damage Assad's ability to protect himself and his regime."'
"It's obvious that what Israel did has definitely led to that, but I doubt that they had a strategy to do so," he said.
Netanyahu warned Assad on November 27, the day Syria's rebel offensive began, that he was "playing with fire" by supporting Hezbollah and helping to transfer weapons to Lebanon.
"But, he never knew that Jolani intended to start an attack," Citrinowicz said, referring to Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, the Islamist chief of the rebel group that led the offensive in Syria.
"And, of course, nobody calculated how the fact that Iran and Hezbollah were so weakened would damage Assad's ability to protect himself and his regime."'
Uh, Citrinowicz, Sun Tzu said and I quote "opportunities multiply as they are seized" and Netanyahu seized them. I rather suspect he knew that putting this kind of pressure on Iran and Hizbollah would undermine Assad and the Syrian regime, who were also friends to the terrorists in the West Bank and Gaza.
The leftist media can never just give credit where credit is due when it's a formally disavowed person involved.
Another source quoted in the article pointed out it's like dominoes; one falls and the others topple along with it.
Frankly, I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn the Mossad was working with some of the rebels and aided them in the attack.
At any rate, this has always been the way to handle this, yet for 76 years it's been negotiate and pull back, offer concessions and let the terrorists rearm and reorganize. And in so doing Tin horn potentates like Assad could hold toy soldier empires because they faced no real resistance and helped aid those groups that attacked Israel with foreign aid. Now with the squeeze on we learn none of this situation was at all real or natural and would have fallen of it's own weight had the great powers - most notably America - stayed the hell out of it. But America restrained Israel for decades out of fear of the Soviets coming in and world war, and then just out of habit and a desire to maintain stability for Arab oil. Now there is an entrenched "peace process professional class" who keep trying the same things over and over and getting the same results. Nobody really wants to solve the problem.
Netanyahu does. Now too does President Trump. And we are seeing the problem solve itself before our very eyes just by some decisive action and willingness to fight this out.
Another of my favorites from Sun Tzu is this:
"When invading hostile territory, the general principle is, that penetrating deeply brings cohesion; penetrating but a short way means dispersion."
It works in warfare or politics equally. Sadly the Republicans never understood that and that is why they were so bumbling. They feared taking the fight to the enemy,and when they did they but dipped a toe in the water, finding it chilly they withdrew and got creaned.
Israel was often that way too when it came to Hamas and Hezbollah and other such groups. But the current P.M. is made of sterner stuff and understands you don't go in half-heartedly. It's do, ordo not (to quote Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back).
So Israel has gone on the offensive in a big way and all sorts of amazing things are now happening. This is not coincidence.
Look; this stuff just isn't that complicated. It only appears complicated because we have an academic class that muddies the waters all the time and devices all sorts of Rube Goldberg machines that ultimately do nothing of any use. It justifies their jobs as consultants.
Take a look at Reagan and the U.S.S.R.; for decades we fiddled around with policies devised by "experts" such as George Kennan's "containment" strategy and in the meantime we propped the Soviets up, giving them food and treating them like civilized men when in fact they were just barbarians. We twisted ourselves into pretzels with a series of arms reduction treaties, with multiple alliances like NATO or SEATO, with all the spy v. spy nonsense. But all we had to do was compete with them economically and they folded. Reagan knew that is how it would go and he was right. So simple and many folks here in flyover country knew that was how it would go all along. But try telling academics that, or bureaucrats whose jobs depended on the military industrial complex.
And in the process we became the very evil we were resisting. Eisenhower warned that could happen. Ike warned as much about the rising power of academia and the technocrats as he did about the military and big corporations. He was right.
All of this could have been avoided had we just squeezed the Soviets harder economically. But then men like Armand Hammer were helping to craft policy towards the Russians and they wanted Russia to succeed.
So we see here yet again how simple it is. It just takes the courage to do it.
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Let's hear it for the good guys here!
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at December 10, 2024 12:27 AM (yTCEo)
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Hurrah!
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at December 10, 2024 08:22 AM (NF0QK)
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