Obama’s chief mistake on this issue is making that “red line” comment. There are no good guys in that conflict in Syria, but the recent actions and statements of the insurgency tell me they’re many times worse. Though the Assad regime is despicable in many ways, I haven’t been quite so willing to believe all the propaganda about killing children en masse during attacks. Muslim radicals have shown repeatedly they are quite willing to murder their own young to score points in international media.
As for the direction of Syria or any other hellhole over there, Muslims may want “democracy” all right, but the problem is what emerges from it. Egypt is the shining example of what comes from giving the majority the power of life and death over the minority.
Obama’s answer to the violation of his dare: Unfortunately due to the GOP inspired sequester, we do not have the funds to conduct any further operations in this part of the world. In fact, I asked George Bush about that yesterday and he agreed with me.
If you draw a line in the sand, you should already know what your response is going to be ... you’ve had time to plan for almost all realistic contingencies. It’s shows a complete ineptitude that they waited till the ‘red line’ was crossed to make the decision that now they have to plan their ‘next steps’.
Every news conference of the coward in chief’s PR guy:
- been in close contact with our allies in the region
- closely monitoring the situation
- put the regime on even more notice
- leaving all options on the table