Tuesday, September 02, 2014

Bashshar's days are now officially numbered: Kenneth Pollack has a plan he would like to share with you

You see, Pollack has a simple plan:  "To get there, the United States would have to commit itself to building a new Syrian army that could end the war and help establish stability when the fighting was over...Recruiting Syrian army personnel would be the first task. These men and women could come from any part of the country or its diaspora, as long as they were Syrian and willing to fight in the new army. They would need to integrate themselves into a conventional military structure and adopt its doctrine and rules of conduct. They would also have to be willing to leave their existing militias and become reassigned to new units without regard for religion, ethnicity, or geographic origin. Loyalty to the new army and to the vision of a democratic postwar Syria for which it would stand must supersede all other competing identities. " And once he finishes this simple task, the rest is a peace of cake. You see, his Army (let us call it the Pollack Army of Syria) would now only finish off ISIS but would also (at the same time) finish off the Syrian regime, Hizbullah, Iran, and the Lebanese Communist Party.  It is simple.  If only the brilliant mind of George W. Bush dreamed of this scheme in his days.  But what is hilarious is that for two years, we were told that there is a moderate secular feminist Army called the Free Syrian Army and that it will do the job or jobs. Now we are told, no. We need to create a whole new American--sorry, Syrian--army to liberate Syria for Americans--sorry, for Syrians.  If only the Pollack Army of Syria was around in WWII: it would have also defeated Hitler. Damn.