Posted on 08/27/2013 8:58:33 PM PDT by TexGrill
WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- U.S. officials said on Tuesday that the options considered by President Barack Obama in the wake of a chemical weapons attack in Syria aim not at regime change and that there is no military solution to the protracted conflict there.
Washington and its allies are weighing military strikes on Syria following the alleged use of chemical weapons by the government in its attack on the suburbs of Damascus, capital of Syria, on Aug. 21, in which as many as 1,300 people were reportedly killed.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said the options being considered by Obama and his national security team are not around the questions of whether or not chemical weapons were used in Syria "on a significant scale," or the Syrian government is responsible.
"It's around the question of what is the appropriate response to this clear violation of international norms," he told reporters at a regular press briefing, reiterating that there is "very little doubt" about the Syrian regime's responsibility for the use of the banned weapons last week.
"I want to make clear that the options that we are considering are not about regime change," he said. "They are about responding to a clear violation of an international standard that prohibits the use of chemical weapons."
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I kinda like the fact this is a no win for Obama.
That’s the only upside I see in this situation.
It’s the price he pays for being a coward a year ago, while we monitored the WMD storage site and then did nothing as “they” ignored his warnings, not to enter the area.
He had a responsibility to hit that facility with a MOAB and incinerate the entire inventory.
I don’t care what his motives were, for that inaction.
I don’t care who was entering the site.
He failed his responsibility.
And now we all get to pay the price.
We gwine whack assad’s wee-wee, are we? To show what? Dude already knows the score and... he has some major help in global powers already.
How ‘bout we just sit this one out and let those baby-raping, blue-helmeted metrosexual girlymen at the UN have this one? A nice, dirty little war would give them a shot a the Nobel “Peace” Prize.
So what’s the imminent threat against the U.S.? I don’t see one.
This fight has no good guys. It’s an Islamic civil war. I’m sure that whatever Obama does it will be the wrong thing to do.
“U.S. officials said on Tuesday that the options considered by President Barack Obama in the wake of a chemical weapons attack in Syria aim not at regime change”
I call Bullshiite, maybe not the aim of the “U.S.” per se, but certainly Zero’s aim to put the muslim slaughterhood into power were ever he can using the money, resources and lives of Americans.
There are 2-1/2 million Syrian Christians under Asaad's protection, who would be slaughtered if the Muslim Brotherhood and al Qaeda take over. That is reason enough for us to support the status quo.
Obama's loyalties lie elsewhere, however: with the Saudis and with the Sunnis of his youth. The Saudis have strategic reasons to get rid of Asaad, given the threat to their security from Shia Iran. The Saudis' tools of war are the militant Sunni groups: MB, AQ and Hamas. The Brotherhood is useful to them in Syria, but not in Egypt. The Saudis are calling the shots in both countries. Obama and the Saudis part company on Egypt. Obama is more of a philosophically radical Sunni supporter. The Saudis are realpolitik, posturing as Sunnis for Arab world consumption: see Ikhwan/Sabilla. On the topic of Syria, the two worlds align. I think that Syria's balance of power will shift to the Sunni militants over the next few months, just as Gaddafi went from the verge of crushing the opposition to his assassination.
Nowhere, in all of this, is any concern for the interests of the U.S., even though its military, and blood, is being used to serve the interests of others.
We went to war once for the Saudis back in 1991.
It certainly wasn’t about Kuwait.
And frankly Saddam had a case for invading them since they were side-drilling into Iraqi oil fields.
“So what’s the imminent threat against the U.S.? I don’t see one.”
The clown residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
So we’re just getting rid of unneeded stock piles on a convenient target?
Why not dump on Iran?
We could get rid if even more leftover garbage munitions. Sarcastic and meaningless question of course.
While no one is paying attention, Obambi will quietly arrange for Morsi to be transferred to Syria. The ‘democratically’ elected Muslim Brotherhood creepozoid will ‘organize’ a shadow government to run both Egypt and Syria. Obambi will privately sign multiple Executive Orders empowering his brotherly Brotherhood to bring about the Al Queda Spring of Malcontent.
Obama decision time:
Hmm, let’s see
Sternly worded letter!
Nah, that what those GOP wusses use
Couple million dollars worth of cruise missiles into a deserted warehouse?
Tempting!
Much more colorful, make big noise, show arab world obama carry big gun to knife fight
decisions decisions
Borrowing more money from China to make a civil war more “fair” is arguably stupider than enabling Al Quida to take over.
We should just let them fight.
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