- Sat Oct 11, 2014 9:17 am
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The main beneficiary of the strikes so far appears to be President Bashar al-Assad, whose forces have taken advantage of the shift in the military balance to step up attacks against the moderate rebels designated by President Obama as partners of the United States in the war against extremists.I'm amazed I tell you amazed that General Obama's war plans have failed. I'm sure Obama is in his war room in Palm Springs today with General Valerie Jarrett and General Susan Rice drawing up new war plans before he begins his golf game. With a team like that ISIS is in serious trouble.
The U.S. targets have included oil facilities, a granary and an electricity plant. The damage to those facilities has caused shortages and price hikes across the north that are harming ordinary Syrians more than the well-funded militants, residents and activists say.
“Everyone is angry with the airstrikes. For three years we have been asking for support, and now the West decides to hit our power and food supplies?” said, a rebel fighter in the northern province of Idlib.
“There’s a disconnect between a stated American policy that recognizes you need a credible local force on the ground and a campaign that is undermining those local forces,” said Noah Bonsey, a senior analyst at the International Crisis Group.
The White House strategy includes a $500 million program to train and equip 5,000 Free Syrian Army fighters, but that still has not begun. Even rebels who have received U.S. support now have withdrawn their backing for the U.S.-led air campaign, which they had initially welcomed. Harakat Hazm, the group anointed with the first deliveries of U.S.-made antitank weapons this year, issued a statement calling the American effort “a sign of failure whose devastation has spread to the whole region and is only helping ISIS.”
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