Speaking at a press conference today with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, President Obama claimed the reports of an imminent US attack on Syria were not false, but “exaggerated,” though he refused to discuss specifics about his administration’s plans.
Obama went on to insist that the goals of the intervention, whatever form it will eventually take, were to “end a war,” and he insisted that the US was not ready to launch attacks.
Yet at the same time, there seems to be considerable appetite within his administration to launch such a war, and the goal seems primarily to be convincing the American public that this war will be at least a little less disastrous than the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Likewise, while Obama says the goal is to “end a war,” his administration has repeatedly confirmed that their primary goal in Syria is regime change, and the efforts to start throwing weapons at the Syrian rebels are aimed plainly at prolonging the conflict, coming after the rebels had suffered some defeats. In the long run the ideal for the administration is regime change without occupation, but with Senators pushing for immediate attacks on the argument that regime change can only be accomplished through direct action, it is unclear at best if the administration will stop with simply arming the Islamist rebels.
And as always with his lies, er, statements, it will turn out that in a few days he will be more than ready for the invasion, occupation, drawn out war that kills thousands of Americans costs trillions and utterly destroys Syria only to have it fall in a true civil war among extremist factions from which it won't recover in decades.
In particular, I'd need to be convinced it's not about making Syrian babies into creatures part-squid, part cleft palette, with an odd number of eyeballs…and/or selling prescription meds to troopses and calling it 'support.'
Good one. I still get nauseous with rage when I see what we did to these poor Iraqi babies.
Iraqi earth sown / salted with Depleted Uranium so that nothing ever grows again…and if it does it is a crime against nature.
Sounds like something a Hebrew would do…Old Testament style.
Obama and his behind the scenes Masters must be destroyed by God.
Syria is not sufficiently defenseless and destroyed for America to get her hands dirty.
His plan is to let both sides to kill each other and then move it and put a puppet like himself. I am sorry president, you will take this wish into your g……………. by then Americans will shout Obama MUST GO. Obama is a dictator and must go.
He's fully on board with an attack on Syria. He's merely taking small steps to get there in order to not tarnish his Nobel Peace Prize.
The fact that he can't actually say, "No, we won't attack Syria" tells you all you need to know – that and the fact that he's lied about virtually everything since before he was elected.