Posted on 08/24/2013 8:49:45 PM PDT by Libloather
President Barack Obama said the alleged mass chemical attack in Syria “is clearly a big event of grave concern,” he told CNN in an interview aired Friday morning. But the President was hesitant to get the U.S. more involved. Citing the ongoing human and financial burdens the U.S. still faces in Afghanistan, he was unwilling to “get involved with everything immediately” and “drawn into very expensive, difficult, costly interventions that actually breed more resentment in the region.”
Two years ago this month, Obama called for the ouster of Syrian strongman Bashar Assad. A year ago, Obama drew what he called a “red line” saying the use of chemical weapons would change his “calculus” on the conflict, which has claimed more than 100,000 lives over the last two and a half years. Syrian opposition groups say this red line has now been crossed with this one attack Wednesday morning claiming as many as 1,300 lives in the eastern suburbs of Damascus.
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They certainly are, and that's important to know along with everyone else's sect, when trying to keep up with the all Muslim games scorecard.
Agree. Obama...if he cared about our country’s security, should have destroyed those weapons a year ago.
If he had been a really strong leader, he could have probably talked Russia into removing the weapons for us.
@ Post 13
I agree. I have never seen an American President consistently be wrong on everything.
We supported Communist Dictator wannabe in Central America when their own Supreme Court upheld the law and removed him.
We betrayed our long-time ally, Mubarak in Egypt destabilizing one of the main players in the region that had been a force for peace.
We supported AQ to depose a leader in Libya that posed little to no threat to our interest even if he was an ass. We did this despite a serious threat that radicals would take over the nation (and the weapons). Then we had Benghazi. We even pulled a Clinton and intervened with air power.
I don’t understand any of this either. The only explanation I can find seems to lie in the bible that does not even mention our nation in the last days. There sure is a lot happening in the nations that are named as the participants in the last Act of mankind.
A secure nation serves no purpose to a progressive. That’s Obama’s goal here in America. The world claimed to love the guy when nobody knew anything about him, so now it’s their turn. If we can keep him and his staff of flying monkeys busy in Syria, Egypt, Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, and of course dealing with the worries of Saudi’s, Jordan, Turkey, UAE, etc......He might leave us alone.
Good list of Zero’s foreign policy failures. don’t forget he let the green revolution down in Iran too. We could have overthrown the mullahs likely without firing a shot. It was set up and ready to go. Obama dropped the ball. If you look at what Obama is actually doing, you have to conclude that he is assisting in setting up the caliphate for the fascist Islamists. I see no other answer.
I don’t buy that because the man has lots of domestic progressive flying monkeys all set up here ready to keep the chaos going until the financial collapse. He is not going to leave us alone no matter what is going on across the ocean. Bank on it.
Me either. Our lack of support for the Iranian people deserved a spot on the list.
I could have also mentioned how hostile he has been to our allies and how much contempt others like Russia and China appear to have for him.
We could still be going in 12 hours if we listed them all. On top of that he has accelerated our inevitable debt bomb far beyond any prior administration with nothing to show for it.
Running on another thread:
[Jan 30, 13] US ‘backed plan to launch chemical weapon attack on Syria, blame it on Assad govt’: Rep
Yahoo / ANI ^
Exactly
Destroy the chemicals and let the Syrians fight among themselves.
Dictator Assad is better than Al Qaeda.
But then Assad isn't the Muslim ideologue Zer0 wants.
Zer0 is attempting to surround (and eventually destroy)Israel with rabid Muslims. Pretty obvious.
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