US-led Colaition Admits It Has Lost Race For Border With Iraq To Syrian Army

“OMG! Syrian government wants to fight ISIS as well! Well, good on them! We thought we had to do this all on our own…”
Lool! This is a good example how out of control everything is at the Foggy Bottom. No one knows shat’s going on, and the poor talking heads have to face the world and make fools of themselves. That really sucks! Even the Israel-firster controlled think tanks are full of shite now, and Israel feels it has to us its AF to make something of this mess.
PS. But be warned in advance – last time US made positive noises about Syria there was suddenly a chemical attack! Which apparently then changed everything. Something similar could be in the planning. No time to relax yet.

Do not believe anything he says, that is the the American spin to spare embarrassment for their failures in Syria. US is not in Syria to fight ISIS, it is there trying to partition Syria.

full of shits.
They want confrontation against Russia,China,Iran and Syria while they thought they can beat them.Let them keep dreaming.

So … the USA apparently spent several billion or so in the last six years in Syria, investing in ISIS, doing bombing raids, sending planes to patrol over there, getting boots on the ground this year, firing torpedoes at the Syrians, training the YPG, SDF and others … just to help Syria defeat ISIS? LOL. The Zionists don’t give up that easily. They don’t invest that much of Americans’ money and sweat in something for so little return.

So what was the purpose of this statement? One aim was to hold up the fact that ISIS are the bad guys, and anyone fighting them are the good guys, and that includes the SDF (and the USA, of course).

The Yanks are backing off a little since the Russians’ severe warning about their putting American planes in their targets. The US has been testing how far they can push things, doing these small probing attacks, to gauge how much the Russians can be pushed.

It’s a two-step dance, a minuet, they’re dancing with the Russians. The Americans take a step forward, and then step back quickly, when the aggression promises to boil over – the Americans have to keep this thing a gentlemen’s tiff, a small spat between two civilized players.

The Russians, too, play along in this dance. They also want to maintain a civil front with the Americans. By siding with the USA in the Security Council on many, if not most, issues, it gets to play one of the “good guys”, a country that stands for “democracy” and “freedom”.

And so the two superpowers continue to race to take control of ISIS territories, with the Americans promising to play more nicely (the Americans will, but will Israel?).

It will be interesting what the Americans will do to hang onto the territories they gain. How they will maneuver the SDF to keep the land they control.

If it comes to a vote in the UNSC, Russia and China would vote against letting SDF keep that land (Russia definitely, China probably). What excuse will the USA have after that? And they have to take into account that everybody hates the Kurds now in this majority Arab nation, and are increasingly viewing the Kurdish as opportunistic usurpers.

The Kurds may have painted themselves into a hole. If they manage to hang onto the land they have captured, with the help of the USA, the rest of the Arab world will see what sort of people they are. They will be hated and despised, even more than before.

Definitely after the war, Assad has to go. The Arabs, in general, do not do well with weak leaders. They resent them and look down on them. It’s easy for tribal groups to conspire and try and topple the weak leader. This is what happened in Syria. People sensed Assad was weak and decided to grab power for themselves, even groups from outside of Syria.

Contrary to what the Americans said at the start of the uprising, the agitators were not after “freedom” and “democracy”. The Middle East is far from embracing western-style liberalism. It was the opposite situation. These rebels wanted to overthrow the weak secular, westward-looking leader who had been educated in a western liberal country, had absorbed those values, and returned to Syria, soon becoming the leader by accident, as the elder brother died unexpectedly, and as a result, he showed a different sort of leadership to that which his father had exalted.

And so the disaffected restless majority-Sunni Arab population want to, in his place, insert one of their own, a strong leader who would proudly assert Islamic dominance in Syria, using state violence if necessary to do so.

Such leadership would satisfy the majority Sunni populace, who could then join hands with their Muslim brothers in Egypt, Palestine, Turkey, Qatar, etc, creating a new Sunni crescent in the Middle East, which would then be able to make a strong united front against the western liberalized USA, EU allies and Israel, and regain pride as Islamic countries, by asserting Islamic power in the region, and help their Palestine Sunni brothers trapped in Israel.

The Sunnis don’t care about Iran or the Shi’ites. To them, Iran and the Shia allies had shown themselves to be weak against the enemy. After all these years following the Iranian Revolution and Iran’s victory in the Iran-Iraq War, and all the bravado shown by Ahmadinejad, in denouncing Israel and the USA, Iran had been reduced to a relatively powerless entity. All it can do these days was fight for its own survival, by signing the nuclear agreement with its great enemy, the US, which forced it to give up its rights to nuclearize, in order to stave off bankruptcy and the collapse of its economy.

Iran had been thoroughly outwitted by the Zionists in almost every way: in the PR war, in the fight for the Palestinians to regain their land – Iranians were branded terrorists, and the UN and the rest of the world were manipulated into making them pariahs internationally.

Sure, the Shia had one victory, the short Hezbollah-Israel summer war in 2006, but that had been a long time ago, and it was not a big war relatively speaking.

And always the Shia-Sunni rivalry has been festering in the background.

when did the americans assume that they had any rights to the border? “yanky go home”