Treasonous syrian umbrella groups meet with neocons and zionsts,to dicuss Syrias way foward! POMED Notes – “Syria: A Way Forward” http://pomed.org/blog/2012/08/pomed-notes-syria-a-way-forward.html/#more-38139

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. Hooper based this assertion on the “responsibility to protect” doctrine, an emerging norm in the international community that allows for an intervention to protect civilians from mass atrocities when peaceful measures have failed. Through the R2P doctrine, Hooper said, a coalition led by the U.S. could use the threat of airstrikes to negotiate the dismantling of the Assad regime. Washington cannot bluff, however, and Assad will undoubtedly test U.S. resolve, Hooper warned.

[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?

WE LOVE WAR FOR ISRAHELL

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 group Keep America Safe; William Kristol, editor of the neoconservative flagship magazine theWeekly Standard; Jack Keane, a retired four-star general who coauthored withFrederick Kagan of the American 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 is Kimberly 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 the Middle 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 report by 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, click here.) Institute for the Study of War - Profile - Right Web - Institute for Policy ...  THATS RIGHT,ITS THE NEOCON,ZIONISTS,LIKUDNIKS,!!! 

Andrew Tabler stressed the importance of building relationships with the individuals running the revolution on the ground. “How this regime goes down is going to determine what’s going to happen next,” Tabler said. The United States has a choice: it can continue to focus on international diplomacy at the expense of the faith of the actors that will inherit ownership of the government, or it can decide to whom it will provide “lethal assistance.” Continued diplomacy is a waste of time according to Tabler because the Assad regime has a “0% chance of changing.” And, if we had prioritized “the ground” last winter, we would have a much better handle on things today. Currently, the administration has little understanding of the political aspirations of those who may be gaining control soon. There are certainly foreign actors in Syria, said Tabler, but even with regard to full-blooded Syrians, the situation is the opposite of nearly homogenous Egypt. Syria’s Sunni community is extremely diverse, and that’s saying nothing of the Alawites, Christians, and other sects. Tabler concluded saying, “Those who are taking shots now [Ed. Note: literally, with guns] will be calling the shots later.” It’s the United States’ responsibility to build relationships with those entities now.

[ED NOTES:ANDREW TABLER IS A ZIONAZI,ISRAHELL TOOL FROM WINEP,WHO ENDORSES WARS FOR ISRAHELL FIRST AND FOREMOST,HES ALSO A NEOCON PUKE..

 Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) is a Washington-DC-based think tank and part of the so-called pro-Israel Lobby; WINEP was founded in 1985. Joel Beinin, Pro-Israel Hawks and the Second Gulf War, 6 April 2003. (Joel Beinin, a contributing editor of Middle East Report (MERIP), is a professor of Middle East history at Stanford University.) Paul Wolfowitz, former Deputy Secretary of Defense - former Board member “The Clinton administration was even more thoroughly colonized by WINEP associates than its predecessor... Among them were National Security Advisor Anthony Lake, UN Ambassador and later Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, Undersecretary of Commerce Stuart Eizenstat and the late Les Aspin, Clinton's first secretary of defense.”

[ED NOTES:ISNT IT AMAZING HOW THESE GROUPS.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.”  HOLD AN EVENT ,WITH THE PRIMARY GROUPS OF ZIONISTS,NECONS,THINK TANKS WICH TOOK US TO WAR FOR ISRAHELL IN AFHANISTAN,IRAQ,SOMALIA,AND OTHERS ? BTW ALSO SEE.. GLOBALIST,IMPERIALIST ''CARNEGIE ... - THENAKEDFACTS THE WESTERN SYRIA CONSPIRACY ... - THENAKEDFACTS  Older Post - THENAKEDFACTS Older Post - THENAKEDFACTS  Washington's Plan B for Syria by Stephen ... - THENAKEDFACTS  U.S. funded seminar of Cuban and Syrian armed - THENAKEDFACTS ALSO IT SHOULD BE NOTED,VICE CHAIR OF POMED BLOG IS RUN BY SHADI HAMID,WHO RUNS QATARS DOHA BROOKINGS CENTRE,HES A ZIONIST SABAN FELOW,AND A CFR MEMBER...POMED IS ALSO A LEADING ADVOCATE FOR REGIME CHANGE IN SYRIA