Originally Posted by
BVRAAM
SASless, don't play silly buggers.
Your President's NSA has been fighting with him for a year now to start regime change.
The same man wrote a significant percentage of the Iraq dossier in 2003 in the knowledge that the ship for intervening had sailed 12 months prior.
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NSA and certain elements in US want regime change but seems to be more in the US Regime than Iranian.
It takes courage not to start a war when not needed as in discussions with North Korea.
It is on record that US made overtures to Syria that they would stop supporting Al Qaeda / IS as long as in reconstruction projects the US Contractors got preferrential terms. Assad decided that he would not ban them but no preferential treatment, deal never happened. Not unsurprisingly he had a problem with the word of ANY US official given how easily it gets broken.