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Official: White House seeks Syria response 'just muscular enough not to get mocked'
The Hill ^

Posted on 08/28/2013 10:33:40 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Official: White House seeks Syria response 'just muscular enough not to get mocked' By Justin Sink - 08/28/13 12:45 PM ET

A U.S. official briefed on the military options being considered by President Obama told the Los Angeles Times that the White House is seeking a strike on Syria "just muscular enough not to get mocked."

"They are looking at what is just enough to mean something, just enough to be more than symbolic," the official told the paper, giving credence to similar reports describing a limited military strike in the aftermath of last week's alleged chemical weapons attack.

NBC News reported earlier this week that the administration would launch three days of missile strikes, while CNN cited a senior administration official saying that the White House wanted to conclude any action before the president departs for the G-20 summit next week.

The New York Times also reported that the initial target list drafted by the Pentagon had fewer than 50 sites. The Pentagon has moved four U.S. Navy destroyers off the Syrian coast, which can launch low-altitude cruise missiles at selected sites.

On Tuesday, White House press secretary Jay Carney said that no course of action had been decided upon, but that the administration was not seeking "regime change" with its response.

"It is not our policy to respond to this transgression with regime change," he said.

In the U.K., foreign secretary William Hague said at a press conference that the government there was approaching the retaliation in Syria as a "very different situation from Iraq."

"Our government is going about it in an entirely different way," he said.

Meanwhile, Syrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi said Wednesday said his county would turn into a "graveyard of the invaders" if foreign powers intervened in its civil war.

The "colonialist threats" of Western powers "do not terrorize us because of the will and determination of the Syrian people, who will not accept being humiliated," Halqi said, according to AFP.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Israel; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iran; israel; lebanon; messaging; nerdinchief; obama; russia; syria; turkey; unitedkingdom; waronterror; worldwariii
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To: Sub-Driver

21 posted on 08/28/2013 10:50:58 AM PDT by wafflehouse (RE-ELECT NO ONE !)
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To: Sub-Driver
If I owned a Syrian aspirin or baby food factory, I would take a few days offf.....
22 posted on 08/28/2013 10:51:18 AM PDT by apillar
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To: Sub-Driver

And this idiot and all those around him, have miscalculated. The Russians and the Iranians will make O regret ever having done anything


23 posted on 08/28/2013 10:52:34 AM PDT by Nifster
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To: Sub-Driver

Look out. Looks like Obama is really steamed . . . about the rodeo clown-thing.


24 posted on 08/28/2013 10:54:39 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Pecos
Committing a small act of war is like being “just a little bit pregnant.” Has anyone done the calculus to ask what a lone Syrian agent might do to this country in retaliation? If we believe they are capable of unleashing chemical warfare on their own population, why would they have any qualms about hitting the U.S. with the same weaponry? We know that DHS has no plans to seal our borders. What makes you think this of any concern to them? Another domestic terrorist attack would justify all sorts of increases to the federal government's domestic security apparatus, just like it did last time. Do you think the country would be complaining about drones or NSA surveilance if such an attack were to happen here?
25 posted on 08/28/2013 10:55:25 AM PDT by altsehastiin
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To: Sub-Driver

Is this satire?


26 posted on 08/28/2013 10:56:12 AM PDT by MattinNJ (It's over Johnny. The America you knew is gone. Denial serves no purpose.)
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To: Sub-Driver

I get it - it’s all about nuance. We only want to kill just enough people to boost 0bama’s poll numbers. Theirs, ours, it really doesn’t matter.


27 posted on 08/28/2013 10:56:53 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Sub-Driver

Is there no limit to the incompetency of the Obamadork & crew?

(This is a self-answering question.)


28 posted on 08/28/2013 11:05:15 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Hotlanta Mike

“West behaves towards the Islamic world like a monkey with a grenade.”

I heard Dmitri is working on a spoof of a Peter Gabriel song,,but the new song will be called “Mock the Monkey”

may catch on


29 posted on 08/28/2013 11:06:05 AM PDT by austinaero
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To: Sub-Driver
Now back to vacation planning.

Or to a quiet room to play spades with Reggie.

30 posted on 08/28/2013 11:09:08 AM PDT by ken in texas (The Obama motto: If the weather's nice let's play golf.)
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To: Sub-Driver

31 posted on 08/28/2013 11:11:39 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Sub-Driver

“just muscular enough not to get mocked” ... unbelievable.


32 posted on 08/28/2013 11:12:42 AM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: Sub-Driver

Obama-tized patriots, throughout history:

Bunker Hill, 1775, General William Prescott: “Don’t shoot too much after they make a remark about the whites of your eyes!”

North Africa, 1943, General George Patton, ““No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by avoiding criticism.”

Moon, 1969, Neil Armstrong: “That’s one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind. And stop making fun of the way I walk.”


33 posted on 08/28/2013 11:14:31 AM PDT by kidd
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To: kidd

1776 Virginia: “Give me liberty or give me a tax break.”
Patrick Henry


34 posted on 08/28/2013 11:16:35 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: altsehastiin
Please note that I never said that the president or anyone in his staff would consider a violent act against the U.S. to be a bad thing. When I used the word “anyone”, I was thinking that there may, just may, be someone with cajones still on staff in the Pentagon. I should have been more specific. Apologies.
35 posted on 08/28/2013 11:18:40 AM PDT by Pecos (Kritarchy: government by the judges)
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To: Sub-Driver

If this country was still “America” a president would have been run out of office for doing something like this. Fire some missiles and kill some people just to look tough.


36 posted on 08/28/2013 11:19:17 AM PDT by VerySadAmerican (When you vote for evil because you can't see evil, you ARE evil.)
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To: Timber Rattler

We have to realize that when Obama talked about a “red line” he knew, or should have known, Assad would say “I’m color blind.”


37 posted on 08/28/2013 11:20:16 AM PDT by VerySadAmerican (When you vote for evil because you can't see evil, you ARE evil.)
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To: Pecos
If we believe they are capable of unleashing chemical warfare on their own population, why would they have any qualms about hitting the US with the same weaponry?

You talk sense. Bombing Syria is a lose-lose situation. If it were the Syrian leadership using chemical weapons on their homelands, surely they'd be willing to use them on us. The other possibility (probability IMHO) is that it was the rebels. If we punish the Syrian gov't for using weapons they haven't used, isn't it a logical conclusion for them to use them?....let the crime fit the punishment.

Another thought: If Obama bombs Syria, what's to stop the rebels from using these weapons in the US and blaming the Syrian government? We'd already be partway down the slippery slope.

38 posted on 08/28/2013 11:20:52 AM PDT by grania
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To: Seaplaner
Everyone knows that it's a good idea to shake a hornets' nest just enough to make a strong statement, n'est ce pas?

Apparently there were no hornet's nests in Nigeria, so how could Barry get the message?

39 posted on 08/28/2013 11:23:31 AM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely expressed as advice)
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To: Da Coyote

He’s not incompetent. He is evil.


40 posted on 08/28/2013 11:23:38 AM PDT by boxlunch (Psalm 94)
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