Fox Hired to Watch Over Henhouse: Russia's Involvement in Syria

Nadene Goldfoot                                                                                

    UN inspectors searching for Sarin Gas use on shrouded bodies

Forty-eight hours previously, President Obama was going to make a call to arms against Syria.   Evidence has been found that Sarin gas was used on the population killed.   At the last hour yesterday, President Obama pulled the rabbit out of the hat with the announcement that instead of hitting Syria with missiles as a punishment for killing hundreds of children and adults of his own people with chemical weapons identified as Sarin gas, their sponsor, Russia, will take over and collect the chemical weapons and see to their destruction, saving Obama from a vote that would not pass at this time to do his bidding.  The fact that Assad has killed over 100,000 of his people by modern and horrible conventional weapons in their 2 1/2 year old civil war is not being dismissed in our minds, only by our government's agenda.

 It is, after all, Syria's own civil war.  A country of over 22 million people, several million are already overpowering the capabilities of Jordan and Lebanon, who is full of terrorist groups already.  Many took refuge in Egypt and are not even registered as refugees due to the bungling of Morsi.  Their government troops number about 296,000 and it is they who must have used the Sarin gas on their own people.  Otherwise, Al Qaeda terrorists are part of the rebels along with other terrorist groups.  Christian groups are divided in their loyalty.  Syria is backed by Iran and Iran is backed by Russia who backs them both.  The country is now physically and economically in ruins.  Homes and cars have been demolished by weapons.  Businesses are no more.  One anti-government activist, K. Ibrahim, is one of the refugees who is completely bewildered by the USA action.  She doesn't understand what is happening or why but was against US striking Syria.  Just recently the Syrian government bombarded towns across the Damascus suburbs with air and artillery strikes.  Barrages around Homs went on between rebels and security forces.  There is infighting between the rebels.  It has all made normal residents continue to run to another state such as nearby Lebanon.

Did our government realize that Russia will now feel free to be  in the act of selling to Iran some S-300 missiles so they could down other ballistic missiles and commercial airplanes from a distance of 120 miles?  They will be in a good position to get away with such a sale of one of the most lethal anti-aircraft systems in the world.

If any sanctions are created, Russia is ready to sell them the Antei-2500,AKA S-300VM, or SA-23 Gladiato,  something ground forces would be using.  .

Russia is also willing and able to build them a 2nd nuclear reactor in Bushehr, which would make it very clear to Israel what their intentions for that is for.  Russia, when the USSR fell apart, has been in dire need for money.  China has also, and has been loaning out money to the USA.  They both have become weapon suppliers to Iran and Syria which give these countries something to counter Western superiority.

Selling these missiles will net Russia about $700 million and puts Putin in the lead of all nations.  Iran's Defense Minister, Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan,  is anxious for this sale, promised in 2005.
                                                                         

Obama is now giving serious consideration that international monitors would be able to take over and destroy Syria's arsenal of chemical weapons.  He can't tell now if they will really succeed.  He feels that any agreement must verify that the Assad regime keep its commitment, and who is the verifier but Russia, the fox watching the henhouse for us.

Syria's foreign minister, Walid al-Moallem, said yesterday that Syria will turn over its chemical weapons arsenal to Russia, the UN and other countries, which is quite a concession.  It was just this week that Assad said they never possessed chemical weapons.
                                                                             

Obama asked his congressional leaders to postpone a vote to authorize the use of force while he pursues "this diplomatic path."   Some of our leaders, however, feel that this gives Syria time for further mischief and play on our instincts of not striking if things go awry.  Securing chemical weapons stockpiles in the middle of this civil war is going to be an impossible goal.  He didn't promise to stop his war.

The steps since Monday have led to Russia clashing with the USA and France in making the proposal binding and backing it up with the threat of force or not.  Kerry is pushing for a full resolution on this measure and will meet with Sergey Lavrov, Russia's foreign minister, in Geneva on Thursday to work on their disagreements, so its not all light and roses yet.  Kerry wants swift action.

Ten days ago Obama described the Security Council as "completely paralyzed and unwilling to hold Assad accountable and now our government  is doing just that.  Carl Levin,, chairman of the USA's Senate Armed services Committee,  said that a resolution to authorize a military strike is set it aside for now if Assad complied is "kind of a twofer".  It's a way of keeping the pressure on Syria and on Russia to get rid of chemical weapons, which is the goal of the whole effort.  If they fail, it would keep the authorization to launch a strike as planned originally.

There is no doubt that Syria has committed atrocities and the question is what the USA and the international community is prepared to do about it because such acts also threaten our own security, and especially Israel's security, as if they hadn't been receiving enough threats already.  What affects Israel's neighbors affects Israel's security as well.  Israel must stay out of this civil war, but is prepared if it reaches their shores.  "The Jewish state deployed strikes in July against Syrian missile convoys destined for one its principal enemies on its northern border, the Lebanese-based Hezbollah."  If Sarin gas is ever used on Israel, their reaction will be "fierce."  One personal  comment about the USA standoff from an Israeli minister was "“One doesn’t need to wait for tens of thousands more to die in order to intervene.”  I think that is how many of us feel, though intervening doesn't necessarily mean to react with more violence.  

Would Russia be then ready with their own S-300 missiles and down ours?  Would the 2 superpowers be pulled into battling each other?

Resource: http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/russia-heats-up-cold-war-with-threat-to-sell-iran-s-300-missiles/2013/09/11/
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/09/will-syria-attack-israel-if-the-us-attacks-syria/279469/
Oregonian newspaper 9/11/13 page A6, Official admits syria has chemical arms by Anne Barnard NY Timees News, Front page, Obama calls for vote delay on Syria by Mark Landler and Jonathan Weisman NY Times 

Washington Leaks Take On an NCIS Fiction-Like Story Line

Nadene Goldfoot                                                                 

NCIS is my favorite TV program.  It is a program starring the Naval Criminal Investigative Services that serves the US Navy and Marine Corps of killings to the troops while on base or even in the theater of operation, sometimes.  In the story we have the beautiful Ziva David (Cote de Pablo) who plays the Israeli special agent, daughter of  Eli David, Head of the National Intelligence Agency of Israel, or Mossad.  She seems to be on loan from Israel and is a very experienced agent.  She gets to see how the American program operates, or rather they get to see how skillful Israeli Mossad agents are. This is how Israel is putting trust into the USA and vice versa, and how they work together.   NCIS even plays in Egypt and Syria, it is so popular.  It's through this program that many foreigners are learning English.

How about a theme for their program where the Israelis have to prevent sophisticated weapons such as missiles from falling into the hands of Lebanese terror groups like Hizbullah, who have joined President Bashar al-Assad in his war against half of his people in Syria. It is NCIS's job to find out where the leaks are coming from about Israeli strikes on arsenals of missiles.  Syria would also use them in a moment on Israel.   Israel strikes a warehouse in Syria that doesn't destroy all of the Russian-made anti-ship cruise missiles that were its target.  They wonder how they could have missed them all.  They knew their information was accurate.  These missiles are a threat to both American and Israeli ships.  Israel did a service in knocking them out for both countries.  Since sailor's lives in the USA navy are now at risk, the NCIS squad is called into finding the information leak.

It comes out that the Syrian rebels' intelligence network had identified newly supplied Russian Yakhont missiles  being stored in the depots that were hit and that "foreign forces" had destroyed the missiles in Latakia, hinting that the foreigners were Israelis.

American intelligence analysts tell the reporters that while the warehouse was destroyed, at least some of the missiles had been removed from their launchers and moved before the attack. The question was "why?" Who told them of the upcoming strike from the IAF?

Now the cover-up part of the story.  The Assad government was hiding the fact that the missiles had been missed and they did this by setting fire to launchers and vehicles at the site to give the impression that the strike had landed a decided blow.  This had been Israel's 4th airstrike to Syria, a country that has allowed over 100,000 of its citizens to die in their Civil War.
                                                                         

                                                 Leroy Jethro Gibbs, head of NCIS Squad

NCIS discover that leaks about the missiles and Israel's attempts to end them all has been  leaked into the mass media from the President of the USA himself.  He and his staff alone have been leaking details of the Israeli military operations against the armed forces of Bashar Assad of Syria.  The leaks include reporting Israeli air and naval strikes on advanced Iranian and Russian weapons that arrived in 2013.  Why?  The President of the USA believes that these strikes could result in regional war.

We can have Ziva uncover such leaks by dating one of the leakers.  She has her ways with men.  She uncovers their resentment in the US Intelligence community over Israeli assessments about Egypt, Iran and Syria.  She learns of the latest leak about the July 5th Israeli strike on a recent shipment of the P_800 Yakhont coastal defense system at Latakia.

It is the American diplomats that  tell her of the CIA leaking  all the information to the press.  That would be the nefarious CIA head who is Leroy Jethro Gibbs's (played by Mark Harmon) good CIA friend and could be Thomas Morrow (Alan Dale).  .  Now Israel will have to plan a 5th attack to get all the missiles.  We have Qassem Saadeddine of the Free Syrian Army's supreme Military Council telling that the their rebels' intelligence network had identified newly supplied Russian Yakhont missiles being stored in the depots that were hit but it is disclosed later about not getting all because of the leak, resulting in saving some of them.  .

Israel protests the US leaks and Ziva will be able to be a witness to it all.  Of course tension is increased with Damascus, who is starting to win their Civil War by killing more people.   Now the CIA and Mossad (Eli David) are at odds, leaving Ziva out in the cold.  The CIA director is a good friend of the American president.   One could say they are in cahoots.   As a last recourse, Israel gets backing from the US Congress and Ziva saves the day's episode. She then becomes a dual citizen of both Israel and the USA.
The last shocking detail, and my leak, is that this is all based on true facts which are just minus the NCIS characters.   Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction could ever dream up.

Resource:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCIS_(TV_series)
Arutz Sheva; articles on 8/1/13 and 8/3/13 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/170547#.Uf2anNKOTqF
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/170478#.Uf2bRtKOTqE
Book: The Secret War Against the Jews by John Loftus and Mark Aarons about spying on Jews in recent history.  It's the shocking story of Israel's betrayal by the Western Powers.