Posted on 08/25/2013 7:00:36 AM PDT by Kaslin
Flashback May 17, 2013: Foreign Policy magazine reports Obama rules out unilateral action in Syria as Russia ships advanced missiles to Assad
Top News: U.S. President Barack Obama again ruled out unilateral U.S. military action in Syria at a press conference with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday. "It's not going to be something that the United States does by itself. And I don't think anybody in the region would think that U.S. unilateral actions … would bring about a better outcome," the president said, promising to "keep increasing the pressure on the Assad regime and working with the Syrian opposition.”Pentagon Crafts Limited Strike Plans for Syria
A U.S. official said the Pentagon has crafted military options for limited U.S. air strikes in Syria that would send a message to the regime of President Bashar al Assad not to continue using chemical weapons against its civilians. There has been no presidential decision to use the military options, and U.S. intelligence continues to investigate an apparent large-scale chemical weapons attack by the Assad regime this week that may have killed as many as 1,000 civilians.Ready to Act
The official said the military options developed for consideration by the White House are limited in scope and would be intended to “deter or prevent” the Assad regime from the further use of chemical weapons.The options are not intended to remove the Syrian president, who has tenaciously hung on to power as Syria’s two-year civil war has raged on.
Traveling on a plane to Malaysia, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel confirmed to reporters that Obama had asked the Pentagon to provide military options in Syria in light of the reported use of chemical weapons against civilians by the civilian government.
Yes, someone has a dog in this fight.
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Also, never to be forgotten, the ruined US car industry, the takeover of US colleges, and our healthcare system. Add to the current affairs, a struggling economy for all but elite government drones and the paid off investment class.
Wag..wag..wag little nobodies..we are many.
Sorry this is NOT our table. We’ve done more then our fair share.
Assad has offered UN inspectors, who are already in Damascus, immediate access to the areas that the Brotherhood claim were gassed. He says that he didn’t do it. I don’t think that he did.
It would have been incredibly stupid timing for Assad to use gas on his own people, right at the time that the Brotherhood was losing credibility in the world for their actions in Egypt. The US helped put the Brotherhood in charge in Egypt and they immediately took off their mask of moderation and exposed themselves as the terrorists that they are. It is not beyond belief that the Brotherhood would gas women and children to win sympathy around the world.
So Obama believes WMD in Syria but Bush was a liar?
We’ve always been at war with Oceania.
Obama’s RED LINE against chemical-weapons use in Syria was passed months ago, yet Obama has done nothing in response.
So Bashir Assad now knows that Obama is a WEAKLING like Neville Chamberlain and if Assad wants to use chemical weapons against his enemies he can DO SO without worrying about any serious intervention by the U.S.
In fact, if that’s the case, Assad must have been manufacturing and stockpiling chemical weapons to the point that if the U.S. EVER DOES get serious about intervening, Assad can easily wipe out any U.S. soldiers and installations that enter his country with a few poison-gas-tipped missiles.
We have to hope that it was NOT Bashir Assad who perpetrated last week’s attack. Let’s hope the U.N. finds it was the rebels, or dire things lie ahead.
ENOUGH WITH THE CLICHES!! PLEASE THINK THIS THRU BEFORE YOU USE FORCE. IT COULD BE DONE FROM THE AIR BUT WHY RISK SURFACE SHIPS?
Isn’t this administration amazing?
We can’t find out what happened in Benghazi last YEAR,
but we know Assad did this three days later.
Isn't it funny that Reagan, the WAR-MONGER!!!, got us into less conflicts than Clinton or Obama...the peaceniks?
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