French General: NATO Attack On Syria “Feasible”

Russian opposition to new military assault in Middle East weakening?

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Friday, August 12, 2011

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Former French General Jean Rannou has outlined the technicalities of a NATO attack on Syria as a bid to topple Bashar al-Assad’s regime moves closer despite the ongoing failure of NATO’s campaign in Libya to defeat Muammar Gaddafi.

Speaking with the EU Observer, Rannou warned that any attack would worsen the country’s internal situation, something that doesn’t appear to have been of much concern to NATO in Libya, but that Syria would be left largely defenseless if western powers launched an attack.

“I don’t see any purely military problems. Syria has no defence against Western systems … [But] it would be more risky than Libya. It would be a heavy military operation,” said Rannou, former chief of the French air force.

“Nato member countries would begin by using satellite technology to spot Syrian air defences. A few days later, warplanes, in larger numbers than Libya, would take off from the UK base in Cyprus and spend some 48 hours destroying Syrian surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) and jets. Alliance aircraft would then start an open-ended bombardment of Syrian tanks and ground troops,” states the report, adding that the Syrian air force would pose little threat to such a plan.

Efforts to isolate Syria in the build up to a military attack accelerated this week after the Guardian reported that President Barack Obama is poised to make a speech in which he directly calls on Assad to step down.

Russian envoy to NATO Dmitry Rogozin has warned that NATO’s plan to attack Syria is part of a build-up that will eventually target Iran and lead to “a large-scale war in this huge region”.

“The planning [of the military campaign] is well underway. It could be a logical conclusion of those military and propaganda operations, which have been carried out by certain Western countries against North Africa,” Rogozin said in an interview with the Izvestia newspaper published last week.

  • A d v e r t i s e m e n t

Russia is fully expected to veto any UN mandate which precipitates a move against Assad. However, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s decision to endorse NATO-led campaign in Libya, with Russia having initially abstained from voting on UN Resolution 1973 back in March, suggests that opposition to an attack on Syria may be weakening.

Indicating that an assault on Syria is in the pipeline, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on Russia to stop selling weapons to Assad’s regime during an interview with CBS News yesterday.

Despite intense western media scrutiny on Assad’s brutal crackdown against pro-democracy demonstrators, both former CIA agent Robert Baer and ex-MI6 officer Alastair Crooke point out that the situation is far more complex.

“Syrians want change. But whether Westerners believe it or not, most people in Damascus, in Aleppo, the middle classes, the merchant classes and the [sectarian] minorities believe Assad is the only person who can bring in reforms,” he said. “They fear two things above all else – civil war and Western intervention … They would like to avoid the example of Libya because it would lead them into civil war,” said Crooke.

As Tony Cartalucci has documented, it appears as thought the establishment press is mirroring how it embellished accounts of Gaddafi’s brutality in an effort to exaggerate the horror of Assad’s crackdown, as the west is prepared for yet another war even as America and the economies of major powers in Europe begin to crumble.

However, the desire to strike Syria is somewhat less enthusiastic than NATO’s willingness to go into Libya, which as Pepe Escobar points out, might have something to do with the fact that “Syria, unlike Libya, is not sitting on immense oil and gas wealth”.

Escobar adds that Syria will only become vulnerable if the country’s middle class loses faith in Assad’s government.

“The Assad regime has done the math and realized it won’t fall as long as the protests don’t reach the capital Damascus and the major city of Aleppo – that is, convulse the urban middle class. The security/military apparatus is fully behind Assad. All Syrian religious minorities make up at least 25% of the population; they are extremely fearful of Sunni fundamentalists. Secular Sunnis for their part fear a regime change that would lead to either an Islamist takeover or chaos. So it’s fair to argue the majority of Syrians are indeed behind their government – as inept and heavy-handed as it may be,” he writes.

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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show.





 
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26 Responses to “French General: NATO Attack On Syria “Feasible””

  1. “Everything is shake, shake, shake” (video)

    thel ede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/08/no-protests-in-israel-video-mocks-netanyahu/

  2. I’ve said it before… and I’ll say it here…

    “As long as Muslims are killing Christians or Buddhists… no troop intervention is needed.

    As long as Sunni Muslims are killing Shiite Muslims… no troop intervention is needed.

    Now reverse the role of either of these… and UN intervention is called upon.”

    And guess what?
    Syria is a Shitte led country that conrols the Sunni majority population.

    Do you think the UN… oops… NATO (Remember they want us believing NATO is in control instead of the UN)… will intervene?

    Ah… yes!

    The world has to save the Muslims from killing each other!

  3. Don’t be duped here…

    NATO was once considered a washed up organization without any real direction. It took 9/11 to activate it again.

    Are you familiar with the 2004 NATO Istanbul Summit in Turkey? Probably not… the stories of Iraq were headlines of the day back then.

    Do you know what NATO really is? What it stands for? Who are the members?

    Do you find it a wee bit interesting that NATO is now the target for all these Islamic nation affairs instead of the UN?

    It should… because the UN is made up of a majority of Islamic nations that decides what to do in these Muslim countries.

    What better way to cover the ass of the UN? Blame NATO now…

    Start directing the masses to believe it’s the NATO countries instead. Keep feeding the world to believe it’s everything else except for Muslims.

    Istanbul… once known as Constantinople…
    1) Is the only city that sits on two continents… (Asia and Europe)
    2) Was once the capital of both Rome and the Islamic Ottoman Empire
    3) Home of the Blue Mosque… related to the Blue Knights…
    4) Today is considered a “Global City”…
    5) It is the second largest metropolis in Europe, with nearly 13 million people…

    Do you know…
    1) On July 21st, 2009 Islamic scholars gathered in Istanbul to blend those two shades of green with a seven-year action plan on global warming.
    2) On 15 July 2011 Hillary Clinton coordinated a meeting with OIC (Organization of Islamic Cooperation) in Istanbul to implement resolution 16/18… which is… ‘defamation of Islam’

    You’re being toyed with… the question is… do you have the capability to decipher what really is going on?

  4. The real nations that should be receiving support are those where the people are starving.

  5. Israeli military forces are getting ready for a possible military engagement with Syria if the UN votes for an independent Palestinian state in September, a report says.
    The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) says such vote might lead to tensions with Syria, provoking the Palestinians living in Syria to storm into the occupied Golan Heights, Haaretz reported.
    It warned if the Syrian army supported such an attempt, Israel would take the necessary action which would lead to a military confrontation.
    Meanwhile, the Israeli military has started to train its officers to deal with expected mass civilian disturbances.
    Tel Aviv also plans to deploy senior officers, battalion and brigade commanders at possible confrontation zones in the West Bank, as well as along the Gaza, Syrian and Lebanese borders.
    Palestinians will attempt to obtain recognition of a sovereign state when the UN General Assembly meets in September. The United States and the Tel Aviv regime remain opposed to the move.
    Membership at the United Nations requires a recommendation from the UN Security Council and the approval of two-thirds of the General Assembly, equal to 128 countries.
    Israel wants to start a war with Syria to try to get the UN General Assembly to delay or to forget about the vote for Palestinian statehood. The manipulative holocaust sympathy train should be rolling in full force once again.
    Israel likes to think it can do as it wants and thumbs their noses at the rest of the world because the Zionists control the United States, France and Great Britain…thereby they control NATO.
    How many U.N. Resolutions are the hypocrites in Israel in BREACH OF?
    Way too many…
    A list of UN Resolutions against “Israel” 1955-1992: *
    Resolution 106: ” . . . ‘condemns’ Israel for Gaza raid”. *
    Resolution 111: ” . . . ‘condemns’ Israel for raid on Syria that killed fifty-six people”. * Resolution 127: ” . . . ‘recommends’ Israel suspends it’s ‘no-man’s zone’ in Jerusalem”. *
    Resolution 162: ” . . . ‘urges’ Israel to comply with UN decisions”. *
    Resolution 171: ” . . . determines flagrant violations’ by Israel in its attack on Syria”. Resolution 228: ” . . . ‘censures’ Israel for its attack on Samu in the West Bank, then under Jordanian control”. *
    Resolution 237: ” . . . ‘urges’ Israel to allow return of new 1967 Palestinian refugees”. Resolution 248: ” . . . ‘condemns’ Israel for its massive attack on Karameh in Jordan”. *
    Resolution 250: ” . . . ‘calls’ on Israel to refrain from holding military parade in Jerusalem”. *
    Resolution 251: ” . . . ‘deeply deplores’ Israeli military parade in Jerusalem in defiance of Resolution 250″. *
    Resolution 252: ” . . . ‘declares invalid’ Israel’s acts to unify Jerusalem as Jewish capital”. *
    Resolution 256: ” . . . ‘condemns’ Israeli raids on Jordan as ‘flagrant violation”. * Resolution 259: ” . . . ‘deplores’ Israel’s refusal to accept UN mission to probe occupation”. *
    Resolution 262: ” . . . ‘condemns’ Israel for attack on Beirut airport”. *
    Resolution 265: ” . . . ‘condemns’ Israel for air attacks for Salt in Jordan”. * Resolution 267: ” . . . ‘censures’ Israel for administrative acts to change the status of Jerusalem”. *
    Resolution 270: ” . . . ‘condemns’ Israel for air attacks on villages in southern Lebanon”. *
    Resolution 271: ” . . . ‘condemns’ Israel’s failure to obey UN resolutions on Jerusalem”. *
    Resolution 279: ” . . . ‘demands’ withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon”. * Resolution 280: ” . . . ‘condemns’ Israeli’s attacks against Lebanon”. *
    Resolution 285: ” . . . ‘demands’ immediate Israeli withdrawal form Lebanon”. * Resolution 298: ” . . . ‘deplores’ Israel’s changing of the status of Jerusalem”. * Resolution 313: ” . . . ‘demands’ that Israel stop attacks against Lebanon”. * Resolution 316: ” . . . ‘condemns’ Israel for repeated attacks on Lebanon”. * Resolution 317: ” . . . ‘deplores’ Israel’s refusal to release Arabs abducted in Lebanon”. *
    Resolution 332: ” . . . ‘condemns’ Israel’s repeated attacks against Lebanon”. * Resolution 337: ” . . . ‘condemns’ Israel for violating Lebanon’s sovereignty”. * Resolution 347: ” . . . ‘condemns’ Israeli attacks on Lebanon”. *
    Resolution 425: ” . . . ‘calls’ on Israel to withdraw its forces from Lebanon”. * Resolution 427: ” . . . ‘calls’ on Israel to complete its withdrawal from Lebanon. * Resolution 444: ” . . . ‘deplores’ Israel’s lack of cooperation with UN peacekeeping forces”. *
    Resolution 446: ” . . . ‘determines’ that Israeli settlements are a ‘serious obstruction’ to peace and calls on Israel to abide by the Fourth Geneva Convention”. *
    Resolution 450: ” . . . ‘calls’ on Israel to stop attacking Lebanon”. *
    Resolution 452: ” . . . ‘calls’ on Israel to cease building settlements in occupied territories”. *
    Resolution 465: ” . . . ‘deplores’ Israel’s settlements and asks all member states not to assist Israel’s settlements program”. *
    Resolution 467: ” . . . ‘strongly deplores’ Israel’s military intervention in Lebanon”. * Resolution 468: ” . . . ‘calls’ on Israel to rescind illegal expulsions of two Palestinian mayors and a judge and to facilitate their return”. *
    Resolution 469: ” . . . ‘strongly deplores’ Israel’s failure to observe the council’s order not to deport Palestinians”. *
    Resolution 471: ” . . . ‘expresses deep concern’ at Israel’s failure to abide by the Fourth Geneva Convention”. *
    Resolution 476: ” . . . ‘reiterates’ that Israel’s claim to Jerusalem are ‘null and void’”. * Resolution 478: ” . . . ‘censures (Israel) in the strongest terms’ for its claim to Jerusalem in its ‘Basic Law’”. *
    Resolution 484: ” . . . ‘declares it imperative’ that Israel re- admit two deported Palestinian mayors”. *
    Resolution 487: ” . . . ‘strongly condemns’ Israel for its attack on Iraq’s nuclear facility”.

    • and now America being annexed to israel clocks up the war crimes – whose going to take
      israel 2 , to account?

    • Can you find one resolution against any islamic nation?

      Can you find even one? Just one? Anywhere?

      Bet ya can’t…

      Folks… listen up…

      If you have ears to hear… this should be alarming! To hear that not one resolution has been placed against any Islamic nation!

  6. Global bulling….but nothing new. Invade Syria why? How about leave Syria alone and the Middle East alone. Ignore them like all other crime that gets ignored. If their citizens have a problem with THEIR government, let them handle it, not run en masse but handle it. Americans have a problem with our government and we are forced to deal with it ourselves. There are no Chinese, no Russians, no Latin Americas, no Middle Eastern, no Africans, No Europeans excoriating the American government for violating Human Rights…basic human rights (organized mobbing) Mugabe’s got torture prisons, well so does everyone else including the USA. The whole world is degenerate and, worse, there is no where to run but off the planet….currently, if ever. The government will control that too. Prison planet! How bad can it get? I got a story for you.

    • Mugabe’s got torture prisons, (and a dictatoral basket case of a once great country)

      Thanks to the Leftists liberals and the ‘human right fanatics’ of the British Government

  7. Once again Syria is a threat to Israel so must be elliminated or brought into the Amerikan fold like Germany with the US. They control her by living in the country after killing a lot of their population through invasion!

    Do you know what Amerika did to German cities by firebombing every night for a long long time with special fire bombs that killed everyone in whole cities, men women and children to boot! The same with Vietnam for ten years!

    These aircraft actions makes the holocaust look like peanuts compared to what Amerika did to Germany almost her entire population in many industrial cities before the end of the second world war!

    Look out Syria, Iran and Pakistan! Here comes the Big Bully Amerika directed by Israel with no economic means to live by except for more printed money to invade and control you!

    • Yes. Dresden. Indeed, and the Uk helped. BUT no one is building a memorial every year to remember the thousand of civilians mainly women andchildren and elderly who were burnt alive in that once great ancient city of western Culture disnintegrated just like the Twin Towers

      • Maybe that’s where Amerika got the idea to cremate every soul’s physical body to ashes which is accepted when you die instead of bury your body preserving the bones which the Bible says is the proper way!

        Even Jesus’ body buried in a rich man’s tomb had all his bones in tack! Why?

        Because He was going to raise from the dead and inhabit his body again!

        He of course went to His Father God to be glorified after meeting Mary his girlfriend in a enhanced form of his earthly body which allowed Him to fly like a Superman and have extraordinary powers He displayed on earth to His followers who were glad to see Him again! He walked through walls and the like when here after His resurrection glorification!

    • Syria is not Libya and as you can see Libya hasn’t step down !

      so if NATO wants to begin a new war against Syria they’ll be in trouble…

      Syria has top of technology weapons supplied by many countries like Turkey, Russia, France to name but a few.

      I’m quite sure that America, France UK etc don’t want to get rid of Kaddafi and El Asad but just to set those countries on fire to keep their agenda going on…

      I’m used to these technics, high oil price before war and then prices go down during war, in both cases they make a lot of money but not only that, they also make a bunch of countries losing high volume of money and trades.

      but some day, half of the planet is going to wake up and get rid of consumerism and spend their time questionning themselves about the way they’re living their lives and focus on what deserves to be done.

      of course religion is the basis of everything in our lives except if you don’t believe in God which is not true for 3/4 of people on this website.

      Some day people will be waking up and will be deciding that this day is the day where they say no to the nwo, no to the way life has been brought to them by those globalists, those satan worshippers, those who decide to bring death to anyone not in the path they decided you to follow and worship.

      this day is very soon trust me

      • Jesus showed you this right! So why not trust Him!

        Activated.org See issue guide!

    • eric…

      Don’t be ridiculous…

      Germany was doing the same thing… they invented the Blitzkrieg…

      So… where did the idea of “paying back” become wrong?

      Oh… that’s right… when the Muslims convinced the world Israel is at fault.

  8. Given that Israel has discovered huge, off-shore gas reserves, it is not too improbable that the same applies to the off-shore resources of Syria. In addition, as a fully paid-for Iranian terror proxy, Syria is ripe for intervention.

    • Excellent comment! Thanks! –e

    • Yeah right…

      You sound like the group of idiots that were saying Israel was taking Libya for their water pipeline…

      You people will devise anything to fill your brainwashed illiterate minds!

  9. everybody that is a member of this site no everybody that has thier eyes open we need to march and arm up and take back are country now all the posting on the web does nothing we need too arm up and take it back now before it is too late lets get the ball moving now

    • Never going to happen! This country is doomed by crossing the God’s line in the Sand! Sorry to deflate your ballon but “No” Amerika’s day is coming! Go mobile and get out of her before she passes through the fire! –e

      • I don’t believe it is wise to take up arms to defend yourself yet but ericnueman is a shill here to install fear.

  10. My My how the military generals have turned into worthless pieces of shit trying to glorify their worthless existences with wars at tax payer expense. Maybe the should all eat shit and die — they have nothing of any value to offer the world. What product or service will their wars create .. nothing.
    The military block-heads are obsolete and worthless, and should be put out to pasture. The world doesn’t need them anymore.

    • You’re one o’ them organic milk terrorist types …

      I recognize you !!!

      Recon … recon … mike … tango … fox … zulu at 7 o’clock … rodger … over …

      • roger recon we have a clear shot on target.

        • Rodger that … now see a bit to the left … that ol’ lady wit’em roses stand …
          you outflank her … on me … rodger …

    • and the warmongering massmurdering corporate whore politcians can follow suit

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