WEB Notes: Do you see how incrementalism is used? First the US uses drones over Syria, then it was fighter aircraft, then US troops, don’t forget the funding of “moderate rebels” and now an invasion.
A Pentagon plan for the coming assault on Raqqa, the Islamic State capital in Syria, calls for significant U.S. military participation, including increased Special Operations forces, attack helicopters and artillery, and arms supplies to the main Syrian Kurdish and Arab fighting force on the ground, according to U.S. officials.
The military’s favored option among several variations currently under White House review, the proposal would ease a number of restrictions on U.S. activities imposed during the Obama administration.
And after Raqqa is “conquered”, the US will surely hand it over to Syria…