This must really upset Assad

I cannot believe it. The Obama administration just announced that it was imposing sanctions on Syria as a rsult of the slaughter by government forces of nearly 1000 people who dared to march to protest against the government of Bashir Assad and the Baathist party. That's right, Obama has now frozen the assets in the USA of Assad and six other people in the Syrian government. Oh, the terror that this move must inflict on the poor Syrians.

Is there anyone in Washington who actually believes that Assad or his ministers had any assets in the USA? Anything that is hidden away overseas is in some numbered account in the Cayman Islands or Switzerland in the name of a corporate front so that the connection to Assad is not even clear to the bank holding the deposits. I don't know that for sure, but hey, I am just making an educated guess.

The Baath regime in Syria is the deadliest government in the region as far as killing its own people is concerned. Sure, we have all heard about the excesses of Saddam Hussein or the mullahs in Iran or Crazy Gaddafi in Libya, but none of them used weapons of mass destruction on their own people. In the 1980's Syria used poison gas on the City of Homa when an uprising/protest broke out there. At the time, Hafez al Assad, the father of the present president was in office and Bashir was just around learning at daddy's knee. Since then, however, Bashir has allied himself with Iran, acted as a conduit for those who wanted to enter Iraq to conduct jihad against American troops, armed the terrorist Hezbollah group in Lebanon, killed the prime minister of Lebanon when he opposed Syrian influence in that country, and many other things. This paragon of peace was nevertheless looked at by the Obamacrats as a "reformer" and an important part of the peace process, even though the only peace that Assad wants for Israel is the peace of the grave. The AP described the Obamacrat view this way earlier today: "The Obama administration had pinned hopes on Assad, seen until recent months as a pragmatist and potential reformer who could buck Iranian influence and help broker an eventual Arab peace deal with Israel."

The truth is that not only have the Obamacrats misunderstood the true nature of the Syrian government, but they have also now taken an "action" against that government which will lead to laughter in Damascus. I know Obama gave the order to conduct the bin Laden raid, but isn't it time that he took action elsewhere as well?