The Washington Post on Syria

I have been writing about the shameful American policy towards the slaughter of civilians in Syria for over a year now. Instead of taking a position in support of liberty or announcing that the USA would have no involvement regarding the killing, president Obama has been just trying to avoid any involvement while he is busy campaigning for re-election. Today, the Washington Post wrote about the same subject on its editorial page. Here are the pertinent excerpts:

Barack Obama’s foreign policy strategy in this election year might be best summed up by William F. Buckley’s famous promise: to “stand athwart history, yelling stop.” Wherever war rages, crisis looms, or a truculent strongman glowers, the message from the White House has been the same: “Give me space.”...

Civil war may rage in Syria, with thousands of deaths and a potentially major effect on U.S. strategic interests. But Obama is determined to do nothing that would take away his stump speech boast that the “tide of war is receding.”

In Syria, too, delay may prove disastrous. As the senior State Department official for the Middle East, Jeffrey Feltman, told Congress on March 1, “it’s important that the tipping point for the regime be reached quickly, because the longer the regime assaults the Syrian people, the greater the chances of all-out war in a failed state.” Yet in the following six weeks Obama has been passive, delegating Syria to the feckless diplomatic hands of former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan. Some 1,000 more Syrians have been killed; last week’s “cease-fire” is crumbling. At this rate, the “all-out war” Feltman predicted will be underway long before November.


When the Washington Post is condemning the do nothing American foreign policy under their favorite, Obama, you know that there is a problem. Let's hope that someone in Washington is listening.