Does Pentagon Like Assad ???

Barack Obama’s repeated insistence that Bashar al-Assad must leave office – and that there are ‘moderate’ rebel groups in Syria capable of defeating him – has in recent years provoked quiet dissent, and even overt opposition, among some of the most senior officers on the Pentagon’s Joint Staff. Their criticism has focused on what they see as the administration’s fixation on Assad’s primary ally, Vladimir Putin. In their view, Obama is captive to Cold War thinking about Russia and China, and hasn’t adjusted his stance on Syria to the fact both countries share Washington’s anxiety about the spread of terrorism in and beyond Syria; like Washington, they believe that Islamic State must be stopped.

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http://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n01/seymour-m-hersh/military-to-military

I don't fully agree.

Part of Obama ad-Dajjal's fixation with Syria is due to his step-and-fetch-it relationship with Israel and Saudi Arabia.

And Hersh's claim of "cold war thinking" ignores the very real threat posed by the BRICS nations and their economic challenge to US hegemony. Obama ad-Dajjal's handlers would have him fighting the Russians and the Chinese on that basis alone.