Obama Avoided Syria Action to Help Iran Negotiations

Weekly Standard ^ | 9/8/15 | Lee Smith

[Nachum]

Over the weekend, the Washington Post’s editorial page editor Fred Hiatt argued that Syria may be “the most surprising of President Obama’s foreign-policy legacies: not just that he presided over a humanitarian and cultural disaster of epochal proportions, but that he soothed the American people into feeling no responsibility for the tragedy.”

Hiatt contends that Obama managed to convince the American public that doing nothing was “the smart and moral policy.” The way Obama sees it, the United States causes more problems than it solves, and besides there wasn’t much we could do anyway by backing a bunch of rag-tag rebels against Assad and his allies.

And, writes Hiatt:

On those rare occasions when political pressure or the horrors of Syrian suffering threatened to overwhelm any excuse for inaction, he promised action, in statements or White House leaks: training for the opposition, a safe zone on the Turkish border. Once public attention moved on, the plans were abandoned or scaled back to meaningless proportions (training 50 soldiers per year, no action on the Turkish border).

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[Cubs Fan]

so how’s that arab spring working out?

[NonValueAdded]

Criminal neglect

[This_far]

Obama avoids anything that detracts from his skinny ass butt,

‘he’ forgets that history doesn’t forget.

Hitler built the Autobahn and didn’t lie,

Obama... lied

(yes Hitler killed millions of people, Obama’s constrained by

[Bobalu]

Saudi Arabia’s unbridled greed and ambition is largely to blame for this mess... and our own Marxist commander in chief shares some of that blame.

The Saudis want a pipeline through Syria to sell gas to Europe. Obama’s petulant hatred of Russia and his desire to deny them the income from European gas sales led him to support the Saudis in their quest to build the pipeline.

The Saudis wield a big stick, they can destroy the petro-dollar and cause all those trillions of external US dollars to come flooding back to us, causing an economic collapse of biblical proportion.

It’s all about $

The whole world lives in a giant house of cards... and a big wind is about to blow.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Hiatt contends that Obama managed to convince the American public that doing nothing was “the smart and moral policy.” The way Obama sees it, the United States causes more problems than it solves, and besides there wasn’t much we could do anyway by backing a bunch of rag-tag rebels against Assad and his allies.

So now we've gotten to the point that the Washington Post's editorial page is calling out Obama for the migrant crisis, while most of the GOP field remains silent.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

He’s just a genius, on so many levels. Always one step ahead. Everything he does works out so well.

[21twelve]

Note - “Benghazi arms to Syria” gets over 400,000 hits on google. It’s not just Obama’s fault.

[Erik Latranyi]

"...there wasn’t much we could do anyway by backing a bunch of rag-tag rebels against Assad and his allies."

But we did back the rebels by arming them, telling them we would send more support and asking them to fight ISIS.

But that would require HONESTY from a liberal reporter who is more interested in spinning this as a "win" for Obama.

[Steven Tyler]

...Hiatt contends that Obama managed to convince the American public that doing nothing was “the smart and moral policy.”...

Speak for yourself, everyone knows Barry has the reverse midas touch. Fortunately, Barry and his Muslim Brother lackeys are working for the Arabs

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[Da Bilge Troll]

0bama avoided Syrian action in order to cause exactly what is happening - a radical muslim invasion of Europe.