August 27th 2013: President Obama tells the country that with or without Congress he will act in the interests of the U.S. and in the interests of humanity itself in Syria after the Ghouta nerve gas attack.
August 28th 2013: The WH allays fears in Baghdad that the U.S. intervention in Syria would further destabilize Western Iraq by approving Baghdad's standing request for air support against ISIL intrusion along with an agreement to up the number of American support and training personal in Baghdad from 100 to 1500. Its agreed they won't have a combat role, but will help fix Iraq's broken logistics systems.
Iraq announces its support for American action in Syria and agrees to let the U.S. Air Force stop Iranian overflights supporting Assad and under the table allows CIA agents in Iraq arm the FSA against ISIL in Eastern Syria.
August 29th 2013: President Obama- I have directed the United States Air Force to take targeted attacks against the air force of Basher Assad. Let this be a message to all dictators who slaughter innocents and stand up to the will of the international community that such acts will not stand.
I have also directed that the U.S. Air Force begin bombing the terrorist militia known as ISIL. Their brutality has shocked the world. This is an organization that you may have known better by their previous name al-Qaeda in Iraq. They are a threat to our allies in the region along with our European allies and in time if left unchecked they will be a threat to U.S. security as well.
If the U.S. doesn't support moderates like the Free Syrian Army against these evils they will be crushed between them and Syria will be left with a never ending civil war that will destabilize the region and sow chaos.
August 29th: American and French jets and cruise missiles strike ISIL positions and Syrian Air Force positions.
August 29th: Cameron and his allies decide to delay the vote in the British parliament for a few days for consultations and to see how events go in Syria.
August 30th: Putin declares the attack on Syria was an unprovoked criminal aggression. Iran's Supreme Leader declares the attack a Zionist Crusader assault on Islam. Small and medium scale protests break out in Europe against the war.
August 31st: A video is released by ISIL of U.S. journalist Steven Sotloff declaring that America and its allies are at war with Islam before being beheaded on camera.
September 1st: Polls in the U.S. showing a majority opposing the intervention shifts massively in overnight polling. Protesters in Europe quickly disappear.
September 2nd: The Syrian Air Force is degraded to a shell of what it was and the FSA is on the offensive against ISIL and Assad's forces in parts of Syria. America loses its first pilot over Syria.
September 3rd: Polls come out in the U.S. showing support in the mid 60% range for intervention in Syria. In the halls of Tehran and Damascus panic begins to set in.
September 4th: ISIL releases a second video of former U.S. soldier turned aid worker Peter Kassig being beheaded. Congress announces its willing to vote for an AUF for the war along with funding the mission. Cameron announces he is ready to hold a vote on intervention in Syria.
September 5th: The British parliament votes by a clear majority to vote in favor of intervention in Syria. In the meantime France loses its first pilot over Syria.
September 6th: ISIL beheads British hostage Alan Henning declaring Britain a crusader country.
September 8th: ISIL's territory they hold is shrinking as air strikes and quality weapons to the FSA start to take a toll. The territory the Syrian armed forces holds is shrinking as well.
September 8th: Assad under siege and without resupply from Iran from the air knows he is in deep trouble, but announces before the Syrian people that he will not step down as President and he will fight to the last man and the last bullet. As FSA troops make another assault on Damascus its met by another large scale chemical weapons attack that kills two hundred FSA fighters and over a thousand civilians.
The WH announces a prime time speech to both houses of Congress for the next day before the vote on authorizing military force.
September 10th: ISIL releases a video of American journalist James Foley being beheaded before President Obama's speech.
Obama declares before Congress that evil exists in this world be it in the form of dictators like al-Assad gassing women and children or ISIL killing civilians and cutting off the heads of Westerners and that if America and the Western world doesn't stand with moderates against these evils no one will and these evils will be triumphant.
His speech is declared by pundits to be the best foreign policy speech he has given as President.
September 11th: Congress votes to support the AUF Obama puts before them by large majorities. Hezbollah announces it is pulling out of Syria and back into Lebanon.
September 12th: Putin meets with Iranian officials and they both agree that the Western world means business and they need to salvage their interests in Syria. They start back channel talks with the U.S. administration about a potential compromise solution in Syria.
September 14th: An agreement is worked out between Russia and the U.S. for a power sharing government in Damascus much like exists in Lebanon in exchange Russia is allowed to keep its interests in Syria and base in the Mediterranean. As part of the deal Russia will support a Chapter 7 UN resolution for a post war peacekeeping force as long as they get to be part of it.
September 16th: Russia tells Assad and his brother behind the scenes its time to leave the country and go into exile and they tell the Russian envoy to piss off.
September 18th: Russia feeds the U.S. coordinates for Assad's bunker and within hours a B-1 Lancer takes off and drops a bunker buster bomb on the compound.
September 19th: The UNSC meets and declares a chapter 7 resolution to resolve the war in Syria. Russia, Turkey, Iraq, and a half dozen other countries commit several thousand peacekeepers to the mission.
Syria continues to be an anarchic country with terrorist Sunni and Shia militias, ISIL, and others
October 1st: In Tehran there is great worry having lost significant influence in Iraq with the return of a small number of American advisers and jets and having lost their client in Syria. Iran seeks to shore up what influence it has left in Lebanon and the Alawite areas of Syria.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhan announces a temporary freeze to its nuclear enrichment and opens up talks with the U.S. about a lasting nuclear deal.
February 1st 2014: Iran and the U.S. announce a lasting nuclear deal that allows Iran limited enrichment capabilities to be monitored by the UN.
February 20th 2014: Putin is seething at events in Ukraine and is looking over plans to occupy Crimea and destabilize the Eastern part of the country. But, Putin is ever mindful of events last year when his Syrian ally stepped over America's red line decides to shelf them and continue the long game of using gas and other levers to influence governmental policy in Ukraine.
Its only a matter of time he thinks before they will be back in the fold anyway.
June 1st 2014: Syria remains a mess, but the FSA and the Syrian army have merged and with the help of international peace keeping forces are slowly bringing order to the country and driving ISIL and its allies out of the towns and cities. Alawite and Shia militias have begun to demobilize other then in Alawite dominated regions.
November 4th 2014: On the back of a strengthening economy and foreign policy success abroad Americans are feeling good about themselves. Voters go to the polls and Republicans narrowly hold onto the House, but the Senate stays in democratic hands.
August 28th 2013: The WH allays fears in Baghdad that the U.S. intervention in Syria would further destabilize Western Iraq by approving Baghdad's standing request for air support against ISIL intrusion along with an agreement to up the number of American support and training personal in Baghdad from 100 to 1500. Its agreed they won't have a combat role, but will help fix Iraq's broken logistics systems.
Iraq announces its support for American action in Syria and agrees to let the U.S. Air Force stop Iranian overflights supporting Assad and under the table allows CIA agents in Iraq arm the FSA against ISIL in Eastern Syria.
August 29th 2013: President Obama- I have directed the United States Air Force to take targeted attacks against the air force of Basher Assad. Let this be a message to all dictators who slaughter innocents and stand up to the will of the international community that such acts will not stand.
I have also directed that the U.S. Air Force begin bombing the terrorist militia known as ISIL. Their brutality has shocked the world. This is an organization that you may have known better by their previous name al-Qaeda in Iraq. They are a threat to our allies in the region along with our European allies and in time if left unchecked they will be a threat to U.S. security as well.
If the U.S. doesn't support moderates like the Free Syrian Army against these evils they will be crushed between them and Syria will be left with a never ending civil war that will destabilize the region and sow chaos.
August 29th: American and French jets and cruise missiles strike ISIL positions and Syrian Air Force positions.
August 29th: Cameron and his allies decide to delay the vote in the British parliament for a few days for consultations and to see how events go in Syria.
August 30th: Putin declares the attack on Syria was an unprovoked criminal aggression. Iran's Supreme Leader declares the attack a Zionist Crusader assault on Islam. Small and medium scale protests break out in Europe against the war.
August 31st: A video is released by ISIL of U.S. journalist Steven Sotloff declaring that America and its allies are at war with Islam before being beheaded on camera.
September 1st: Polls in the U.S. showing a majority opposing the intervention shifts massively in overnight polling. Protesters in Europe quickly disappear.
September 2nd: The Syrian Air Force is degraded to a shell of what it was and the FSA is on the offensive against ISIL and Assad's forces in parts of Syria. America loses its first pilot over Syria.
September 3rd: Polls come out in the U.S. showing support in the mid 60% range for intervention in Syria. In the halls of Tehran and Damascus panic begins to set in.
September 4th: ISIL releases a second video of former U.S. soldier turned aid worker Peter Kassig being beheaded. Congress announces its willing to vote for an AUF for the war along with funding the mission. Cameron announces he is ready to hold a vote on intervention in Syria.
September 5th: The British parliament votes by a clear majority to vote in favor of intervention in Syria. In the meantime France loses its first pilot over Syria.
September 6th: ISIL beheads British hostage Alan Henning declaring Britain a crusader country.
September 8th: ISIL's territory they hold is shrinking as air strikes and quality weapons to the FSA start to take a toll. The territory the Syrian armed forces holds is shrinking as well.
September 8th: Assad under siege and without resupply from Iran from the air knows he is in deep trouble, but announces before the Syrian people that he will not step down as President and he will fight to the last man and the last bullet. As FSA troops make another assault on Damascus its met by another large scale chemical weapons attack that kills two hundred FSA fighters and over a thousand civilians.
The WH announces a prime time speech to both houses of Congress for the next day before the vote on authorizing military force.
September 10th: ISIL releases a video of American journalist James Foley being beheaded before President Obama's speech.
Obama declares before Congress that evil exists in this world be it in the form of dictators like al-Assad gassing women and children or ISIL killing civilians and cutting off the heads of Westerners and that if America and the Western world doesn't stand with moderates against these evils no one will and these evils will be triumphant.
His speech is declared by pundits to be the best foreign policy speech he has given as President.
September 11th: Congress votes to support the AUF Obama puts before them by large majorities. Hezbollah announces it is pulling out of Syria and back into Lebanon.
September 12th: Putin meets with Iranian officials and they both agree that the Western world means business and they need to salvage their interests in Syria. They start back channel talks with the U.S. administration about a potential compromise solution in Syria.
September 14th: An agreement is worked out between Russia and the U.S. for a power sharing government in Damascus much like exists in Lebanon in exchange Russia is allowed to keep its interests in Syria and base in the Mediterranean. As part of the deal Russia will support a Chapter 7 UN resolution for a post war peacekeeping force as long as they get to be part of it.
September 16th: Russia tells Assad and his brother behind the scenes its time to leave the country and go into exile and they tell the Russian envoy to piss off.
September 18th: Russia feeds the U.S. coordinates for Assad's bunker and within hours a B-1 Lancer takes off and drops a bunker buster bomb on the compound.
September 19th: The UNSC meets and declares a chapter 7 resolution to resolve the war in Syria. Russia, Turkey, Iraq, and a half dozen other countries commit several thousand peacekeepers to the mission.
Syria continues to be an anarchic country with terrorist Sunni and Shia militias, ISIL, and others
October 1st: In Tehran there is great worry having lost significant influence in Iraq with the return of a small number of American advisers and jets and having lost their client in Syria. Iran seeks to shore up what influence it has left in Lebanon and the Alawite areas of Syria.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhan announces a temporary freeze to its nuclear enrichment and opens up talks with the U.S. about a lasting nuclear deal.
February 1st 2014: Iran and the U.S. announce a lasting nuclear deal that allows Iran limited enrichment capabilities to be monitored by the UN.
February 20th 2014: Putin is seething at events in Ukraine and is looking over plans to occupy Crimea and destabilize the Eastern part of the country. But, Putin is ever mindful of events last year when his Syrian ally stepped over America's red line decides to shelf them and continue the long game of using gas and other levers to influence governmental policy in Ukraine.
Its only a matter of time he thinks before they will be back in the fold anyway.
June 1st 2014: Syria remains a mess, but the FSA and the Syrian army have merged and with the help of international peace keeping forces are slowly bringing order to the country and driving ISIL and its allies out of the towns and cities. Alawite and Shia militias have begun to demobilize other then in Alawite dominated regions.
November 4th 2014: On the back of a strengthening economy and foreign policy success abroad Americans are feeling good about themselves. Voters go to the polls and Republicans narrowly hold onto the House, but the Senate stays in democratic hands.
