Days after the U.S. and Turkey announced a breakthrough deal to fight together against the Islamic State, U.S. officials are insisting that -- contrary to reports -- there are definitely no U.S. plans for a “safe zone” inside Syria. In fact, there really is no “zone,” and there is no plan to keep the area “safe.”
...“We’re not out there staking out zones and doing some things that I know have been discussed in years past -- no-fly zones, safe zones. What we’re trying to do is clear ISIL,” a senior administration official said. “I think it’s important not to confuse that with staking out these zones that you can identify with road signs and on big maps, and that’s just not what’s happening.”
On Monday, a White House official told an audience in a closed-door meeting at the Middle East Institute in Washington the same thing about there being no safe zone inside Syria, according to two people who were inside the meeting. The Obama administration is sending a delegation back to Turkey next week to work on exactly what the new cooperation along the northern Syria border will look like, the official said.
[source : U.S. Shoots Down Idea of Syria Safe Zone, Bloomberg, http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-07-28/u-s-shoots-down-idea-of-syria-safe-zone, 28th July 2015]
Yeah. Whatever.
Whatever we want them to be they will be.
Just as long as it entices Syria to attack then we can attack them.
Lest we forget: the USA is implementing a plan for war and regime change in seven countries in five years...and that plan is waaaaaaay behind schedule.
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