Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey confirmed that the Obama Administration is discussing the prospect of attacking Syria, and that the Pentagon has provided President Obama with several options for “kinetic strikes.”
Dempsey insisted that the momentum of the ongoing Syrian Civil War has shifted in favor of the Assad government, while hawkish Sen. John McCain (R – AZ) railed about the administration not having attacked Syria long ago.
McCain and Dempsey clashed when Dempsey suggested that a US invasion can sometimes making situations worse. McCain blasted him for opposing the 2007 surge in Iraq, insisting that it proved that US escalations were “right” and any opposition to them was wrong.
President Obama’s promises to arm rebels and the new talk of invasion have sparked concern from some in Congress that the rebels’ ties to al-Qaeda are concerning and that the administration doesn’t have specific exit strategies despite their eagerness to get involved in new conflicts. The administration seems reluctant to address that criticism publicly, and is relying on hawks to shout down any opposition to war in general.
the american war industry is sick. get the fuck out of the middle east, and stop supporting the ignorant jihadist islamist terrorists.
Exactly . . . For all intents and purposes, we may as well have kept George Bush in office, for the results would be no different. Obama has been nothing but a master BS'er from the day he was elected. The people who nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize must be seriously ashamed of themselves by now.
Second that: US, get the fuck out of the middle east, and shut down the worldwide empire.
And we know where this is going. What was the point of electing Obama again? To end up with a younger version of MadTraitorMcCain?
The reason why Barack HUSSEIN Obama was elected in 2008 was because so many people like myself considered John McCain to be a Zionist Neocon Warmongering Insane nutcase.
The only reason that Barack Hussein Obama was even running in 2008 was because he had convinced the Zionist Neocon organization of Chicago that he was the guy to be their warmongering, insane nutcase in the White House. The Zionist Neocons had BOTH candidates on their payroll – they didn't want to take any chances.
Exactly what would our government strike? Syria has no real military assets of value. If we hit their troops, we would kill hundreds of innocents. If we hit storage facilities, we risk massive chemical and biological contamination. Since Syria has not used WMD nor has it been hostile to the US or any other government, there is absolutely no justification. An attack would be grounds for impeachment to say the least
I knew something was wrong with prez BO when he started to hang out with the bushes in the bushes. by the time his second term is over he may be even less popular than cheney & that is really saying something
Are you a Korean pilot?
Look: every US president for last 60 years had a war under his name, if Hillary Clinton is going to be the candidate she will have a war under her name, that is Iran war. This time is no different, is Obama turn to have a war under his name, that is the nature of vulture capitalism to screw you the people, after all this man was elected by the you the people and working for you the people. Wake up America how Dum can you be.
Oh boy. More dead people. (sarcasm). Is freedom on the march again ? And how about those dancing liberated flower tossers ? Will Assad be found hiding in a spider hole ?
After Iraq/ Afganistan/Libya the yanks don't have the belly or the money to engage anyone and with their states going broke it will be all over Syria is no pushover like Iraq.
Actually Amerikon doesn't plan to send any troops to Syria. What they want is to bomb Syria back to the Stone Age. This is war on the cheap, the new "normal" way to wage war the coward fashion. So much for the all-powerful macho American military.
"…Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey confirmed that the Obama Administration is discussing the prospect of attacking Syria."
What does this even mean?
Its like a school principle looking at a melee outside his window and saying he is thinking attacking the schoolyard.
I presume Dempsey means attacking forces and supporters of the Assad regime – like, maybe Russia! But who knows what's in the minds of these folks anymore? The VA needs to evaluate the lot of them – and soon.
I've been telling you this is the PLAN for the last year!
There's no "reluctance" on Obama's part. He just doesn't want to be BLAMED for another war. As soon as he figures out a way to attack Syria without serious repercussions to himself, he'll do it. And then as soon as Syria and Hizballah in Lebanon are degraded, he'll give Netanyahu the green light to attack Iran.
And so the insanity continues. With the world economy sitting in tatters the lunatic Obama is looking for a way to push it over the edge. What earthly business does this country have getting involved in Syria and supporting either directly or indirectly the very parties we claim to be fighting in the "war on terror", It's insane! The US Congress had better find it's cajones and fast or the mulatto madman will drag us to hell.
The only 'cojones' these teabaggers can find get warm and wet.
Dempsey and Obama are both cuckoo. The American people can't take anymore nonsense wars.Look at Detroit and the rust belt. They need to fix up America first. No more killing brown people for fun and glory
Why is there no mention of the shit*y little state? If anybody thinks this threat against Syria is not called for and pushed by the psychopaths in Tel Aviv, he is in complete denial of reality. Tell me just one teeny tiny advantage the US gets from attacking Syria?
They need us to stop fretting about their spying on us, and those pesky "troublemakers" who keep using that nasty word impeachment! Give them a war, they will rally round the president, the NSA, the CIA, and all the rest.
is syria a threat to the usa? NO? Then it has no right, no legal right at all to attack…By goodness to even think,talk about such insanity is nuts….
That never stopped the US before.