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Source: Wall St. Journal
By Maria Abi-Habib
June 16, 2016 8:05 p.m. ET
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BEIRUTDozens of State Department officials this week protested against U.S. policy in Syria, signing an internal document that calls for targeted military strikes against the Damascus government and urging regime change as the only way to defeat Islamic State.
The dissent channel cable was signed by 51 mid- to high-level State Department officers involved with advising on Syria policy in various capacities, according to an official familiar with the document. The Wall Street Journal reviewed a copy of the cable, which repeatedly calls for targeted military strikes against the Syrian government in light of the near-collapse of the cease-fire brokered earlier this year.
The views expressed by the U.S. officials in the cable amount to a scalding internal critique of a longstanding U.S. policy against taking sides in the Syrian war, a policy that has survived even though the regime of President Bashar al-Assad has been repeatedly accused of violating cease-fire agreements and Russian-backed forces have attacked U.S.-trained rebels...
Obama administration officials have expressed concern that attacking the Assad regime could lead to a direct conflict with Russia and Iran.
Read more: http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-state-department-officials-call-for-strikes-against-syrias-assad-1466121933
They really do want World War 3.
NATO exercises right up to the Russian border in countries like Poland and Hungary which are in the proto-fascist stage (Poland is being sanctioned by the EU for its latest suppression of Constitutional government.)
And now, this provocation.
First, the US, France, and Britain all violating Syria's sovereignty by sending Special Forces without permission. Then the neocon contingent of the State Department demands that we bomb Syria.
Does it ever stop? Are they fucking insane?
Thank god Obama is sane on this topic.
