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Efraim Halevy.
Former Director, MOSSAD

It is a Muslim civil war, like the rest of the Arab Spring, so called, including the post-Saddam Iraqi bloodshed and the Afghan 'insurrection'.

Remove the dictator, whether in Iraq or Libya or Egypt, and the places boil over, warlords, factions, clans begin to jockey for power.

With ‘Friends’ like these…: Contact group industry in overthrowing govts (Op-Ed)

Anybody who has studied how the US and NATO worked to topple the Jamahiriya in Libya knows that the US has tried to replicate the same regime-change mechanism in Syria.

The formation of multilateral contact groups supporting proxy oppositions has been a key to this process. What most people do not know is that Americans’ contact group industry started in Somalia.
2006 was a critical year for Somalia, because by its end it appeared the war-torn African country was going to be stable once more after decades of civil war. Somalia’s autonomous northern regions, Puntlandand Somaliland, had been run relatively peacefully. The south, however, had seen continuous fighting since 1991. The Islamic Court Union (ICU) defeated most the warlords and united most the south under its rule, managing to bring law and order. Peace talks were also in the works to unite Somalia. There was high anticipation that a period of relative peace in 2007 was about to begin.

Then the US and its regional ally Ethiopia launched major hostilities on December 20, 2006. General John Abizaid, the commander of CENTCOM who was directing the wars in Iraq and NATO-garrisoned Afghanistan, had visited Ethiopia about three weeks earlier to hold a low-profile meeting with Prime Minister Meles Zenawi on December 4. The two had planned what would become the US-Ethiopian invasion of Somalia. US warplanes, ships, intelligence, and special force units all took part in the war while the Ethiopians sent the bulk of the ground force to fight the ICU.

To justify the invasion the US invoked the Global War on Terror and portrayed the ICU as an affiliate of Al-Qaeda.

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http://rt.com/news/contact-group-overthrowing-governments-665/

I say NATO and the coalition forces should always go after the terrorists, but they are going after peasant farmers and civilians, who are not terrorists. They call them insurgents or terrorists.

They won't stop terrorists by killing civilians, that just creates more terrorists.

They should have taken Putin's advice and gone to where the terrorist cells were, but they didn't.

And as far as Syria goes, I want America to stop funding the rebel terrorists.

I can't think of anyone who is pro Al Qaeda and the Taliban.

It doesn't mean if I'm against one force that I'm for the other force. That's George W talk.

If you don't know who your enemy is, how do you expect to win?