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Workshop participants felt that prolonged conflict was the best descriptor for the situation in Syria as of December 2013, but momentum seemed to be leaning toward regime victory.
Negotiated settlement was deemed the least likely of the possible scenarios.
Regime collapse, while not considered a likely outcome, was perceived to be the worst possible outcome for U.S. strategic interests.
Obama's refusal to directly arm or train Syrian rebels prior to 2013, and his rejection of a 2012 outline for "CIA intervention in Syria" suggested by then-CIA Director David Petraeus was motivated by his own belief that past instances of the CIA supporting insurgencies rarely "worked out well." The program he ultimately approved was designed not to give the rebels enough support to achieve victory, but rather to engineer a stalemate that would encourage a negotiated resolution of the Syrian Civil Warโwhich U.S. officials envisioned as including the resignation of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The CIA trained 10,000 rebels "in Jordan and Turkey" at facilities run with the cooperation of the Jordanian and Turkish governments, but strict prohibitions were placed on the U.S. or its allies introducing "certain classes of weapons" (such as MANPADs) into the conflict due to fears they could be captured by terroristsโthis despite the fact that all CIA-supported rebels are "vetted" for possible extremist ties.
thats just David Petraeus
contradicts what McCain said
David Pateraus and the assessment of the RAND institute
already granted David Petraeus
Also the position of Seymour Hersh
Seymour Hersh and RAND are not part of the US Gov
these are just expert opinions
Rand is strongly linked to the US government
They are advisors to the US gov
not part of it
They advice policy decisions and are used as basis for formulating policy
most experts on Syria back then was of the view that Assad was going to fall
They concluded that the collapse of Assad was against US strategic interests
David Pateraus is the only insider that said the US was of the view that fall of Assad is not desired by US, and that is contradicted by McCain
Also the statements of Obama are rhetorical in nature
Not the US intelligence assessment of more confidential nature
what inside
DP is the only one who has come out and said this
What
until today
What
David Patreaus and the assessment of the US intelligence community
the assessment of the US intelligence community who
IC said that Assad fall is undesirable and that the US is not support overthrow/step down of Assad?
thats from IC?
offcially from IC?
sessment, put together by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, then led by General Martin Dempsey, forecast that the fall of the Assad regime would lead to chaos and, potentially, to Syriaโs takeover by jihadi extremists, much as was then happening in Libya. A former senior adviser to the Joint Chiefs told me that the document was an โall-sourceโ appraisal, drawing on information from signals, satellite and human intelligence, and took a dim view of the Obama administrationโs insistence on continuing to finance and arm the so-called moderate rebel groups. By then, the CIA had been conspiring for more than a year with allies in the UK, Saudi Arabia and Qatar to ship guns and goods โ to be used for the overthrow of Assad โ from Libya, via Turkey, into Syria. The new intelligence estimate singled out Turkey as a major impediment to Obamaโs Syria policy. The document showed, the adviser said, โthat what was started as a covert US programme to arm and support the moderate rebels fighting Assad had been co-opted by Turkey, and had morphed into an across-the-board technical, arms and logistical programme for all of the opposition, including Jabhat al-Nusra and Islamic State. The so-called moderates had evaporated and the Free Syrian Army was a rump group stationed at an airbase in Turkey.โ The assessment was bleak: there was no viable โmoderateโ opposition to Assad, and the US was arming extremists.
DIA said this when?
2013 I believe
where sis the assessment
?
@Neuron Cortex hey
Hey, what is going on
I have
question
Sure
I am in voice
@Leaf Yeah, what about it?
<:frogecat:601952596550221834>
I am in voice
nestor she wants you to go to watch2 gether and talk to her
you silly goof
@Neuron Cortex unmute me and good christian boy
Why was I muted?
Muted again why
@โขLukeโข Why you gotta use such anti intersectional language bruh
<:AquaCry:643129178383974410>
@AusFox Is there a problem with that?
Against preferences ๐ค
The rest of the insults were fair game tho.
Lame ass preferences
If it makes transphobes buttmad I'll use 'em
@โขLukeโข I am a deontologist in terms of rule enforcement
<:yui:643133199051915305>
Now THAT'S what I call cucked
sry man
The R word is fun to use, but I'm trying to have a Destiny slur arc.
@Neuron Cortex wtf
he has been fucking insulting me this whole damn time
and derailed multiple times
You mute me every time I speak what the fuck
@Rise Again @Leaf move to chill plz
@AusFox could you unmute?
๐ฉ some one is listening to crap in there so I'm inclined to ask.
@AusFox AusFox could you unmute?
<:yui:643133199051915305>
hey
no bevveys im sober
but yes
Set is associated with alcohol
least the euphoria from it
Non Alcho Bevvies
those suck they taste like garbage and dont get you drunk ๐ฆ
I mean like Soda or Tea
yeeesss
if we ban eveyrone like this
this server
Would be dead <:Angry:643130505167896578>
this is pseudo think tank
not smart think tank
oh wait thats cause that's his name
nvm lol
I got muted
?jail @Speculative Realist
$brig @Speculative Realist
?brig @Speculative Realist
?brig @Speculative Realist ยธ
theyre paid what theyre worth because thats what they fetch on the market
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