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Unnamed U.S. officials said, Sunday, that President Obama has decided to allow U.S. airstrikes in support of U.S.-trained rebels no matter who brings them under fire, even if it comes from the Syrian army. White House National Security Council spokesman Alistair Baskey told Reuters that only the U.S.-trained forces were being provided a wide range of support, including “defensive fire (in layman’s terms, airstrikes) support to protect them” and pointed to the July 31 U.S. airstrikes as proof, in support of the rebel group Division 30 when it came under attack from Al Nusra.

Reuters notes the possibility that U.S. forces might come into direct confrontation with Syrian government forces cannot be ruled out. Indeed, some might argue that Obama’s policy makes such a clash inevitable, despite the stipulation that U.S. policy is aimed only at ISIS, and the administration’s failure to get Congress to support a direct attack on the Assad government in the late summer of 2013.

Historian Stephen R. Weissman, writing in an Aug. 2 op-ed in U.S. military newspaper Stars & Stripes, argues that in fact, the Obama Administration is following a pattern that was first set in the Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964 when President Lyndon Johnson deceived the American public about the presence of U.S. military forces in Southeast Asia. The result was war that devastated Vietnam, the U.S. military and U.S. foreign relations. That pattern, however, has continued ever since.

Weissman particularly points out the U.S./NATO attack on Libya in 2011, which was promoted as protection of civilians, but was really about regime change.

What began as a program to train armed opponents of the Assad government has morphed into a program to target ISIS. U.S. officials were then hinting that they might extend U.S. involvement to include “protection” of the forces the U.S. is training as they integrate with existing rebel groups in Syria.

Further potential expansion comes with the discussions of establishing a safe zone inside Syria along the Turkish border.

Indeed, Moscow, Monday, warned that U.S. attacks on Syrian troops will only further destabilize the situation. Moscow has “repeatedly underlined that help to the Syrian opposition, moreover financial and technical assistance, leads to further destabilization of the situation in the country,” Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov said, adding that IS terrorists may take advantage of this situation.

And the Obama Administration, Weissman notes, is doing all of this without a plan for bringing the war to a satisfactory conclusion and without consulting with or authorization from the U.S. Congress.

If you recognize that human beings are not animals, and can shape the future of their own species, you will act now to prevent its extinction by the nuclear war which is threatening us, in the actions of President Barack Obama.

The latest in Obama’s escalating war threat against Russia and China — his order to U.S. air forces bombing in Syria to “engage” Syrian government forces when deemed necessary — drew an immediate warning from Moscow, and draws us a step closer. The proposal from a NATO advocate in Ukraine for a U.S./Europe oil embargo “to crush Russia” is another step. The NATO “Trident Juncture” exercise next month, practicing nuclear war right on Russia’s border, will be another in the step-by-step buildup awaiting a trigger, like the buildup to World War I a century ago.

World wars are started in a step-by-step process of escalating threat, wars, and mobilizations, in which no one can forecast precisely which step will set off the trigger. But it can be seen, by Americans willing to face the future, that Obama — under British manipulation — is pushing those escalating steps of confrontation with Russia and China.

We are coming closer and closer to doomsday, the point one of Obama’s many wars and escalations triggers World War III. It is increasingly recognized internationally, that this situation is converging on civilization. The human race is in the greatest danger of extermination. Therefore we have to be the sparks in the mobilization to stop this, by forcing Obama out of office, and you can be among those sparks.

EIR Founding Editor Lyndon LaRouche has proposed, urgently, that Hillary Clinton can get Obama out, by telling the truth publicly about Benghazi, when he ordered her, and others, to lie about what his Libya War had wrought. That act would cost Hillary her chance to be President, but it will bring Obama down. And it would show that any human being can exercise the uniquely human power, abruptly to shift the history and future of the human race. Not to believe she could do this, is simply cynicism, or “animal calculation.”

We have to get some in positions of influence to do this. September will be too late. Things must be put in motion soon, to get Obama out of power. We are the sparks for this.

We need a large and directed clamor now, in the United States and Europe. But that means that their citizens must stop being self-absorbed, “practical,” and, as a result, stupid. Human beings, unlike animals, are able to recognize this kind of danger to the future of their kind, and to stop it.

We are on a full mobilization to do that.

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