It amazes me how POTUS Obama has made so many blunders in
regards to Syria – and he’s still piling them one on top of each other!
Obama’s off-the-cuff “red line” comment a year ago was the
start, but If he had just fired off a few cruise missiles at Assad when he did
use chemical weapons – much like his predecessors Clinton and Bush had done
with Libya this whole affair would be a distant memory by now.
But no, POTUS Obama could not make even a small decision
that he would “own” – so he had to go to Congress to get approval for an action
that he already had the authority to make under the war powers act. Obama’s
advisors knew that Congress would not approve the act because it was not
thought out and he couldn’t get anything through Congress anyway. Obama’s
political strategy was to be able to blame Congress for not authorizing action
and hopefully the whole affair would go away. Obama elevated what should have
been a minor decision to fire some cruise missiles into a deliberation worthy
of WW3 – and it isn’t about to go away.
Now that Obama has been thrown a razor blade covered life
preserver by Russian President Putin, Obama has effectively pivoted away from
all of the US allies in the region and has effectively rendered the US impotent
from a political and military perspective in regards to Iran. Unfortunately for
Obama, the story isn’t about to go away anytime soon. The whole chemical
weapons inspectors fiasco will last years while Assad resumes slaughtering his
people, and each massacre will now have Obama’s name associated with it. The former allies of the USA (like Egypt Saudi Arabia, etc.) in the Middle
East will be reassessing their relationship with the USA and form alliances
that met their national interest – which may not coincide with USA interests. Why
wait for Obama to throw them under the bus like foormer Egyptian President Mubarak?
Even as I write, Obama is being manipulated by both Russia
and Iran in what may be the most humiliating foreign policy fiasco in the
history of the USA. There is an old saying that when you are in a hole, the
best course of action is to stop digging. Would someone please take the shovel
from Obama’s hands?
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