ANY COALITION WILL BE BOMBING SYRIA FOR A VERY VERY LONG TIME

By all accounts air strikes in Iraq on The (un)Islamic State have done bugger all to degrade and destroy them.

So far Obama had been wise not to bomb Syria. He had stalled on bombing Syria last year: scandal after scandal; pleas from leaders such as Hollande and Erdogan; tricks by the UK and Israel blaming the SAA for chemical weapons attacks, ending with Ghouta; twice-weekly editorials in The Washington Post demanding war on Syria.

McCain, of #arrestMcCain4ISIS fame, blurted out that Obama did not want to arm ISIS when everyone else did.

But within a few days of an agreement being reached between the USA and Syria to coordinate attacks on ISIS in Syria, after several years of no intruders in The White House two come along, one armed to the teeth!

Hmmm. A bit of a coincidence?

Did those intruders destabilise Obama? In addition to the news about this obscure IS splinter that was allegedly planning to attack the US homeland?

Now the USA has decided to bomb IS and this splinter. The USA claims it told Syria, which Syria does not deny, but Syria is denying coordination or permission, and will be stating the procedure from last night at the UN SC tomorrow.

In other words, a very unwise Obama just broke international law and attacked Syria.

No, the USA didn't attack any Syrian military position. But that event is not far off.

Neither is the day when elements in the US military claim that Syria attacked a US fighter jet.

This is going to be a long drawn out war on Syria. The forces that Saudi Arabia will be training to fight Assad will be ready in a minimum of 6 months, but it will be more like 8 to 12 months. If the IS is destroyed quickly then the SAA can focus on the rabble of rebels that now left in Syria, and within 6 months the 'civil' war will be over and the Saudi-trained forces will be food and drink to the SAA.

So in the meantime, before these Saudi-trained rebels are ready:
1. the US will continue to bomb IS, not to degrade and destroy the IS but to preserve some kind stalemate;
2. provoke the Syrian military into shooting at a coalition fighter jet, or provoke or claim some kind of Gulf of Tonkin event.