The Obama White House announced today that it had concluded that the Assad forces in Syria had used chemical weapons and crossed president Obama's proclaimed red line. This conclusion was no surprise; many other countries had already announced the same conclusion, including France which had actually had scientists who examined samples taken from victims of the sarin nerve gas sprayed by the Assad forces. No explanation was forthcoming from either Obama or his spokesman as to why it took America and extra six weeks or so to reach its conclusion.
In addition to the crossing of the red line by the Assad forces, the Obama spokesman stated that the USA would now begin offering more assistance to the rebels fighting Assad. No clarification was given as to what the assistance would be. Is it communications equipment? Maybe. Is it artillery? Maybe. Is it tanks? Doubtful. How about planes? Very unlikely. Are antiaircraft missiles on the way to Syria from the USA? I hope not; after all, some of the rebels would likely use those missiles on American planes if they could. Even a no fly zone has not been ruled out or ruled in.
The strange thing about all this is that Obama issued a non-clarifying clarification. Actually, with this president, that is nor really all that strange.
America needs to destroy the chemical weapons held by the Assad regime. Those are the weapons that could be used against us or our allies. Those are the key items of danger in the entire Syrian mix.
It is hard to imagine that Obama waited for close to 100,000 Syrians to be killed before he mostly decided to consider whether or not to possibly act.
He should change his first name from Barack to Dither.
One last note: I have been writing about the need for American action on Syria for years now. There are about forty different posts on this site discussing events in Syria and a possible course of action for the United States. As these post were written, president Obama did essentially nothing. One hundred thousand people were killed but Obama did essentially nothing. The situation went from bad to worse, particularly as it affects the interests of this country, but Obama did essentially nothing. Obama has raised doing nothing to an art form. Nothing that happened today changes that. Even Bill Clinton says that Obama will soon look like a fool if he continues to ignore what is happening in Syria. Clinton is wrong; Obama already looks like a fool to the people in the Middle East. The Iranians and Hezbollah are laughing at him, and they have good reason to do so.
In addition to the crossing of the red line by the Assad forces, the Obama spokesman stated that the USA would now begin offering more assistance to the rebels fighting Assad. No clarification was given as to what the assistance would be. Is it communications equipment? Maybe. Is it artillery? Maybe. Is it tanks? Doubtful. How about planes? Very unlikely. Are antiaircraft missiles on the way to Syria from the USA? I hope not; after all, some of the rebels would likely use those missiles on American planes if they could. Even a no fly zone has not been ruled out or ruled in.
The strange thing about all this is that Obama issued a non-clarifying clarification. Actually, with this president, that is nor really all that strange.
America needs to destroy the chemical weapons held by the Assad regime. Those are the weapons that could be used against us or our allies. Those are the key items of danger in the entire Syrian mix.
It is hard to imagine that Obama waited for close to 100,000 Syrians to be killed before he mostly decided to consider whether or not to possibly act.
He should change his first name from Barack to Dither.
One last note: I have been writing about the need for American action on Syria for years now. There are about forty different posts on this site discussing events in Syria and a possible course of action for the United States. As these post were written, president Obama did essentially nothing. One hundred thousand people were killed but Obama did essentially nothing. The situation went from bad to worse, particularly as it affects the interests of this country, but Obama did essentially nothing. Obama has raised doing nothing to an art form. Nothing that happened today changes that. Even Bill Clinton says that Obama will soon look like a fool if he continues to ignore what is happening in Syria. Clinton is wrong; Obama already looks like a fool to the people in the Middle East. The Iranians and Hezbollah are laughing at him, and they have good reason to do so.
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