It's pretty apparent that the Assad regime has used sarin gas in the Syrian civil war. Even Chuck Hagel says so. The MEC had declared chemical weapons to be a "red line." It now appears that that term was pretty much meaningless, and the message sent to our rivals, adversaries and enemies is yet again that of an ever-weakening America. That's okay with the MEC. He may preside over America, but he doesn't love it or understand its greatness. He holds it in disdain and thinks it needs to be knocked down a peg or two.
As with his domestic policy, it is we the masses who will experience the consequences of his mad worldview.
Calm down, did you miss the part of the article that says "the use of Sarin on this small scale may well have been a kind of test." So that's enough for you to start breathing down the necks of those you so vociferously wish were not in power but got there partially because of numerous failures, both domestic and foreign, of the Bush administration? So what would you do Gen. Remote Control? Send in our troops to shock and awe them ASAP? You know a reactionary defense takes a bit of time to assemble, dontcha. I've said it before, your immediate, poorly timed, incessant carping serves you ill. Oh well, who am I but at best a reasonable gentleman who you of course detest.
ReplyDeleteThe White House, in a letter to Congressional leaders, said the nation’s intelligence agencies assessed “with varying degrees of confidence” that the government of President Bashar al-Assad had used the chemical agent sarin on a small scale.
ReplyDeleteBut it said more conclusive evidence was needed before Mr. Obama would take action, referring obliquely to both the Bush administration’s use of faulty intelligence in the march to war in Iraq and the ramifications of any decision to enter another conflict in the Middle East.
Source: any news outlet you want
Wait, aren't there radical Islamists among the Syrian rebels?
ReplyDeleteThere are. Syria is the mideast in microcosm: a bag of snakes where good actors are hard to find.
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