The Obama Administration is all set to start arming Syrian rebels, putting aside the ethical concerns and moving forward with that plan after a decision was made weeks ago to do so. There’s still no word on the no-fly zone out of the White House however.
And that’s got the hawks in Congress enraged, because having finally got the US sucked into at least directly arming combatants in the Syrian Civil War, they see a “no-fly zone” as the next logical step toward a full invasion and regime change.
Obama aide Denis McDonough’s comments on CBS earlier suggest this may be slow going for the hawks, as he insisted that the US would be more deliberate in its Syria policy and won’t “rush” into the war like they did in Iraq.
Which is at least a little relieving but doesn’t mean that the administration, which has been appointing hawks to key security positions in recent weeks, isn’t headed for a war in Syria. It just means that they are easing into it, like a tired man into a hot bath.
Administration officials who are less hawkish (like Chuck Hagel) have been arguing against the no-fly zone for months, noting it amounts to a full-scale declaration of war and would commit the US to an open-ended conflict with plenty of opportunity to escalate (as happened in Libya). Though it again doesn’t rule anything out, it will take a long time for the administration to wear down public opposition to the Syrian War enough that they can stumble into the nation with some pretense of “care.”
Every thing that is said by White House or the black one in London has been manipulative as their politics has been and is at the present time.., we don't rush into this war like Iraq.., but for last two years we actively been involved refusing to hear the people voice and now we "illegally" without having proved anything accusing the Syrian government crossing the "Red Line" so we can live the door open for a no fly zone and then invasion of Syria, is not like Iraq but very close to it.., the only thing that differs our action is the time of the "Red Line" knowing that Syrian people winning the war and that Iraq war was about a lie by the Bush regime limited but not unlimited to WMD which Obama administration knows that they can not come up with such lies.., so they look for advise from Bill Clinton., McCain and other warmongers within and outside Democratic Party.
Please stop calling them "congress hawks". Let's call a spade a spade. They are Israel-firsters that place the needs of another country before those of the US. In my book, they are traitors – so please just call them that.
Guillotine time.
@Cloak and Dagger. I absolutely agree with your suggestion.
There is no question that our elected officIal spend too much time on things that do not help the people in the area that elected them. people expect the elected one to spend their time to help make their lives better. No wonder that we are so deep in trouble. Two of the greatest mistakes in our history is the Federal Reserve and the election of Senators. Our founding fathers were for the most oposed to both. Our founding fathers set up a system that local people pick who got to be a senator. This system kept the senator doing the work of the state the sent him. Today we have senators who get elected with money from out of state so they run around doing the work of who gave them money. John McCain is number one f9r money from AIPAC. AIPAC is a foreign organization which is for the benefit of Israel. There is no question John McCain spends all his time doing the work of Israel.
We are screw with the senators so we probabe should only have one per state. It might not change things but it might eliminate a war for profit.
LMGTFY: "Before the adoption of the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913, senators were elected by the individual state legislatures. However, problems with repeated vacant seats due to the inability of a legislature to elect senators, intrastate political struggles, and even bribery and intimidation gradually led to a growing movement to amend the Constitution to allow for the direct election of senators."
Personally, I'd rather have at least the impression that I had a say. Leaving the selection to other politicians, for me, is a total no go.
This talk of a "no fly zone" has got nothing to do with the welfare of the Syrian people and everything to do with israel's strategic interests, that is defeating Hizbollah, Syria and eventually Iran. But just how does the utter destruction of Syria and more wars in the Middle East square with American interests? It doesn't but that does bother the israel first whores we have elected to Congress.
But the war in Iraq was precipitated by ten years of war in Iraq.