>>9162787 (lb) "My Job Is To Make Syria A Quagmire For The Russians"

Above quote by James Jeffrey, Council of Foreign Relations. CFR – does anything more need to be said?

visiting fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (board members such as Henry Kissinger).

"CIA Director David Petraeus awarded Jeffrey the Director's Medal in 2012"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Franklin_Jeffrey

"an American pro-Israel think tank based in Washington, D.C."

"part of the core" of the Israel lobby in the United States"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Institute_for_Near_East_Policy