Treasonous syrian umbrella groups meet with neocons and zionsts,to dicuss Syrias way foward!

On Wednesday, the American Syrian Coalition – the Syrian American Council, the Syrian Emergency Task Force, Syrian Expatriates, and United for a Free Syria – held an event entitled “Syria: A Way Forward.” The panel featured James Hooper, managing director of the Public International Law & Policy Group, Andrew Tabler, a senior fellow in the Program on Arab Politics at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and Joseph Holliday, a senior research analyst at the Institute for the Study of War. Cole Bockenfeld, director of advocacy at the Project on Middle East Democracy, moderated the discussion.For full event notes, continue reading below or click here for the PDF version.Read more…

James Hooper opened the panel, coming out in strong support of U.S. military intervention in Syria’s ongoing civil war. When Syria’s 4^th armored division moved from Damascus to Aleppo, stretching out along the highway, tanks and armored personnel carriers would have been easy targets for U.S. bombers, Hooper said. It was an opportunity lost. Hooper warned that the United States “lacks an intuitive understanding of the Middle East” but what, he asked, could happen if the administration fully committed to supporting the Syrian opposition? Hooper seemed to suggest that U.S. military intervention could induce a political military alliance between the Kurds, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Free Syrian Army. And from an international law standpoint, an intervention would be entirely legal, Hooper claimed.

[ED NOTES:WHO IS JAMES HOOPER AND THE   Public International Law & Policy Group ? THE GROUP IS FINANCED BY… Financial Supporters Carnegie Corporation of New York Open Society Institute  Financial Supporters  Managing Board  James Hooper “is a Managing Director of the Public International Law & Policy Group. He is the former director of the Washington office of theInternational Crisis Group (ICG), as Deputy Ambassador he led the effort to prepare Poland’s post-communist government and military for NATO membership[ED NOTES:HES A NATO ADVOCATE, CHEERLEADER,AND A SOROS PUPPET]

Joseph Holliday outlined a recent military history of the conflict.

Essentially, the Syrian army began an offensive in January to end the uprising “once and for all.” Starting in Damascus, Syrian forces traveled from city to city clearing areas of rebels. The offensive was, on the whole, successful until May, during which “something changed.” That change, according to Holliday, was likely Saudi Arabia and Qatar beginning to provide weapons for the rebel fighters. By June, the Free Syrian Army was armed and organized enough to go on the offensive. The stretching out of Assad’s forces during their five month sweep north enabled the rebels to strike Damascus. This forced Assad to bring troops back to the capital and showed the regime that it could not afford to use brigades defending Damascus to hunt down rebels in other areas. Now the Syrian army is confined to outposts, unable to venture out for fear of being ambushed.

And as Assad loses control of larger areas of the country and “begins to contract,” Holliday said, opposition forces will begin to occupy the security/political vacuum left behind. Local coordinating committees have become “revolutionary councils” and, in fact, have successfully run areas abandoned by the regime. Holliday concluded saying “we need to figure out who is actually going to end up controlling Syria because it’s not going to be the Syrian National Council.”

[ED NOTES:HOLIDAYS ASSERTION THAT ONLY IN MAY DID QATAR AND SAUDIS GIVE WEAPONS IS NONSENSE,AND UNTRUE, Syria: Saudi admits Syrian “protesters” – THENAKEDFACTS SYRIA FALSE FLAG  ANYWAY WHO IS JOSEPH HOLLIDAY,AND INSTITUTE FOR STUDY OF WAR?

Founded in 2007, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) is a Washington, D.C.-based think tank that has supported long-term U.S. military intervention abroad, particularly in Iraq and Afghanistan.  As of December 2011, ISW did not publicize on its website the members of its board of directors. However, according to 2008 tax documents, the organization has had five board members: Elizabeth Cheney (chair), daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney and founder of the right-wing advocacy groupKeep America Safe; William Kristol, editor of the neoconservative flagship magazine theWeekly Standard; Jack Keane, a retired four-star general who coauthored withFrederick Kagan of theAmerican Enterprise Institute “Choosing Victory,” a 2007 study that served as a blueprint for the so-called “surge” in Iraq; and Dennis Showalter, a military historian.

ISW’s founding president isKimberly Kagan, a historian who is married to Frederick Kagan.[2] A non-exhaustive Right Web investigation of Form 990 U.S. tax records revealed nearly $700,000 in donations from charitable foundations during 2007-2009. Donations included nearly $180,000 from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a premier neoconservative advocacy group, as well as $60,000 from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, a right-wing foundation that has funded other militarist outfits like theMiddle East Media Research Institute(MEMRI) and Daniel Pipes’ Middle East Forum, earning it a spot among the top funders of the anti-Islamic discourse in the United States according to a 2011 reportby the Center for American Progress. The Marcus Foundation, which has also supported MEMRI, contributed another $250,000 to ISW during this period. (For a full list of Right Web’s findings, clickhere.) Institute for the Study of War – Profile – Right Web – Institute for Policy …  THATS RIGHT,ITS THE NEOCON,ZIONISTS,LIKUDNIKS,!!!