Clinton’s ‘No-Fly Zone’ over Syria Will Not ‘Save Lives’ – It Will Lead to War with Russia

The media has failed to address the confrontation between the U. S. State Department and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Francis Dunford (image, left) has warned both the US Senate as well Secretary of State John Kerry in no uncertain terms that a ‘No Fly Zone’ over Syria would lead to war with both Syria and Russia, intimating a dangerous process of military escalation.
In a Senate Arms Services Committee hearing, Dunford said, responding to questions from Republican Senator Roger Whicker (Mississippi):
‘Right now, Senator, for us to control all of the airspace in Syria it would require us to go to war, against Syria and Russia… That’s a pretty fundamental decision that certainly I’m not going to make.’ (Senate Armed Services Committee, September 22, 2016, emphasis added)
At the third presidential debate, Hillary Clinton reasserted her commitment that if elected president, she would implement a no-fly-zone, intimating that the objective was to ‘save lives’:

This post was published at 21st Century Wire on OCTOBER 26, 2016.