syria has been the target of the empire since 1947 when the cia was established and ever since in various ways; 

In late November, the seemingly dormant civil war in Syria reignited and Syrian rebel groups began a new drive across western Syria. At first, the rebels captured Aleppo and Hama, and then moved on to the capital Damascus, finally toppling the Assad regime.

The fall of the Assad regime—the last secular Arab regime—represents a victory for Islamist, terrorist insurgents and their allies. These terrorists’ allies, most especially the US and the State of Israel.

Washington began to publicly and actively pursue this in 2013 when then-President Barack Obama declared that Assad “must go” during a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Then, as now, the US was being repeatedly pulled into regional conflicts in the service of the Israeli state. Tel Aviv wanted a puppet regime installed in Syria that would facilitate Israeli land grabs in southern Syria.

This opposition to the Assad regime was packaged as opposition to Assad’s alleged human rights abuses, although Assad’s supposed war crimes now look almost quaint compared to the ongoing butchering of women and children by the Israeli state in Gaza.

Just as Tel Aviv respects no international law or limits on warfare imposed by just war theory, so also the Israeli state is not loath to support terrorists when they are helpful in toppling Israel’s stronger enemies.

For years, the US has kept thousands of troops in Syria—with about 9,000 there now—and, as Eric Margolis puts it, the US “with Israel, helps the jihadists while publicly denouncing them.”........more........