Anyone watching Brett Baier? long piece on Syria, especially about all the various rebel groups, their names, what positions they hold, what positions Assad holds (....with maps & graphs-—country map splits Syria nearly in half.
Then to the round table. Not a ripple in anyone’s glass-pond mind that the Obama adm said that they have definitive proof that Assad was responsible for the chem attack-—not in the body of Baier’s prog and not in the round-table discussion.
[IF the adm said “definitive proof,” they said it in an announcement AFTER the Kerry and Carney pressers.]
In fact, Krauthammer had only this to say in the roundtable:
Two choices: “He [Obama] can do a demonstration of conscience or he can do a strategic maneuver. It is not about him; it is not about his conscience, his manhood. It’s not about showing the world that he is strong. This is about whether the US is going to try to alter the course of the war. If it’s not, then he should not do anything....”
Krauthammer then cited and agreed with Gen Keane from earlier in the show-—destroy all the airfields, destroy Assad’s air power, change the balance of power. We can do all that without putting any soldiers on the ground.
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No mention of removing chem weapons!!!
So.... I guess the dream and hope is that the rebels will be so grateful and unified that Assad’s air superiority has been destroyed that they will voluntarily hand over all the chem weapons. Well...”hand over” would require boots on the ground to receive them. We will give them an address and they can ship them to us.
let me cogitate that a while
Meant to ping you to 103
Maddening!!
The American people do not want this war...on all sides of the aisle! Yet our media, our leaders do and don’t give a crap what the country wants anymore.
I was reading comments at the NYT article about Kerry’s presser today. 100 posts to 1 do not want this war. Same thing at papers all over the country!
Baier’s Round Table was disappointing.
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