Posted on 05/04/2013 8:07:27 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
Following evidence of chemical warfare and an increasinly reticent US position, Israel has in recent days taken widely reported steps to neutralise threats emanating from within civil war-torn Syria.
While strikes from Lebanese airspace this weekend are not thought to have been on chemical weapons caches, the recent Israeli intelligence regarding the use of such weaponry is thought to have spurred on a round of strikes, including the latest just hours ago.
The Syrian state news agency SANA, citing initial reports, said early Sunday that Israeli missiles struck a military research center near the capital Damascus.
Syrian state television has reported that a major strike on an ammunition depot in Qassiyoun mountains shook Damascus, while Hezbollah's Al-Manar station claimed the explosion may have been a downed Israeli jet.
Rumours are surfacing online that following the latest volley of attacks on the Syrian regime, President Bashar al-Assad will soon officially declare war on Israel, with speculators pointing to 5am local time for official confirmation. This information continues to persist despite the technical state of war that currently exists between the two states.
Many however, have been quick to dismiss these reports as strictly rumour, with various commentators claiming that such a move would be sure to end Assad's reign of terror in Syria "within a week".
The news of an Israeli intervention in Syria has caught the Obama administration on the back foot, with the US president refusing to comment at length about the strike. Obama said, "The Israelis, justifiably, have to guard against the transfer of advanced weaponry to terrorist organizations like Hezbollah."
The US president made no mention of supposed "red lines" being crossed, despite evidence of Syria's used of chemical weapons against rebel forces. Critics have hit out at Barack Obama in recent days for failing to put forward any coherent strategy to bring the violence in Syria to an end. The inaction, according to some, is another example of Obama's "lead from behind" strategy, the same tactic he employed during the intervention in Libya.
UPDATE 03:15am GMT: 5am local time in Syria has passed without comment from military authorities or the Assad regime. Speculation continues about the nature of the attack with some insisting that Israel's weaponry was "nuclear-like", that chemicals can be "smelt" in the air, and that the attack was co-ordinated by Israel with help from Syrian rebel forces.
When Obama’s red line on chemical weapons in Syria was passed and Obama did nothing, he crossed another line — into irrelevancy.
Nothing Obama says now regarding Syria, or the Middle East, or in fact any subject, has any meaning. Any Obama press conference will now be more absurd than the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party in Alice in Wonderland, with the members of the White House Press Corps making fools of themselves by serving as little doormice as the foolish Obama pontificates meaninglessly.
Obama got away with guns to Mexico and then went to Mexico and said it’s America’s fault.
He was informed of an attack in Libya, men was fighting for their lives and waiting for help and Obama went to bed and left the decisions to others and then friggin lied about it.
He was at gas stations before his election moaning about gas and now gas is double there is not a peep.
I won’t go into all of his failed Presidency but Obama will get away with this as he always does.
Whether, fast and furious, to Libya, to debt,to the white hosue being closed to Egypt to even starting a war in Libya which led to Americans dying and as always the media will without a doubt cover for him again
That is an excellent, correct summary.
Congratulations, America. You’ve won the trifecta. You have a POTUS who is both stupid, cowardly, and devious. Family Guy would do better.
He already is
A present vote I can accept, as long as he doesn’t do anything stupid like stop selling arms to the Israelis. I have every confidence that left alone, Israel can take care of any group of camel jockeys in the region.
What I’m concerned about is Obama actively intervening on behalf of the muslims, either actively by joining the he man Israel haters group known as the UN, or behind the scenes putting pressure on Israel to stop doing whatever they must in their own interest, in the name of “international peacekeeping”.
Will Obama declare war on Israel too?
The key here is, what will Iran do? They no doubt would like to fight a proxy war against Israel, using the Syrian military and Hezbollah. They support both.
Zero crosses the 'yellow line.'
“That is impeachment as far as I;m concerned and yet most of this country has no idea what Benghazi is because they’re lazy ignorant low info voters”
Saw a new term for them today (or one I hadn’t heard before):
LOFO’s.
Russians are also sight seeing in Alaska and Guam with their bombers.
Why send a missile when you can do it personally? It is about making a statement, don’t f__k with us, we can go anywhere we want.
Was that a small nuclear detonation?
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