Watch this exchange at the recent Senate Hearings on US strategy in Syria between Senator Lindsey Graham, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford.
By Jay Vogt
The chilling exchange basically consisted of Graham grilling Carter and Dunford about not having a plan to fight alongside the US-backed ‘moderate’ forces, and then repeatedly interrupting the hapless pair as they tried to negotiate with the bald fury coming their way.
The seriousness of this exchange should not be lost on anyone. This was nothing short of a senior US Senator – who happens to be running for president – openly calling for war with Russia.
There is no other way to interpret it. His words are crystal clear. Everyone in the world knows that Russia is openly fighting in support of Assad; and here we see Lindsey Graham hammering these two defense officials because the US does not have plans to join anti-regime fighters to ‘take down Assad’. This is nothing short of war with Russia.
Source: Russia Insider
Damascus Rally, October 12, 2011
Millions of Syrians rallied in support of President Bashar al-Assad in the capital Damascus.
June 4, 2014: Bashar al-Assad wins a landslide victory in the Syrian presidential poll with 88.7 percent of the vote. This will secure him a third seven-year term in office amidst a bloody civil war. Voters turned out at an amazing 73.4% and there were two other candidates running against him. The other two candidates for the top post were Hassan Abdullah Nouri, from the National Initiative for Administration and Change in Syria, and Maher Abd Al-Hafiz Hajjar, formerly from the People’s Will Party. No violations have been reported, Syria’s Higher Judicial Committee for Elections said.
According to an internal NATO study (dated June 2013), 70% of Syrians support President Bashar al-Assad, 20% adopt a neutral position and 10% support the so-called “moderate rebels.”
Against the Grain 
Well, at least Graham is sticking to the propaganda line: the ‘people’ of Syria, who have had 250 thousand of their families murdered by Assad, want to take down Assad.
The point of his tirade is that Carter and Co. long ago lost the plot of the big lie in regard to Syria and the world is now seeing through the original subterfuge. There is and never was a grass root uprising against the ‘regime,’ but the world might have remained convinced of this if only ‘the team,’ as here exemplified by Graham’s brazenness, had ‘stayed on message.’
And yes, I agree with Vogt’s reading this exchange, that the rulers of the Empire of Chaos are now having to confront the possibility of going to war with Russia if they are to maintain their control over the Middle East. On the other hand, the ‘plan’ has always been to instigate a war with The Bear, only perhaps under better circumstances. Hopefully Russia will prevail.
I’m sure Graham has decided he can personally survive a nuclear holocaust in his nifty underground bunker. To hell with the rest of us.