Today's bad guy in the Middle East is Syria. The little war their has escalated to where the Assad regime has used chemical weapons on its people. A year ago President Obama said the use of chemical weapons by Syria was a 'red line' that would prompt the U.S. to take action. Click the video:
That red line has been breached and now the president, to save face, must act. The question is, how?
The current prevailing wisdom is the U.S. will respond with air strikes of some sort, or launch cruise missiles from off shore.Whether it's full-bore to take out the Assad government, or peace meal to say in effect, "Ok, we did something." Either way, the United States, once we get involved, will be forging an unlikely alliance
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The U.S. has always backed the Syrian rebels in their battle against the Syrian government. Al Qaeda has aligned itself with the rebels and, in a stranger twist, it appears their is another link. Read More: Benghazi Terrorists Train Jihadists For Syria
There is some dissension in Congress as to whether we should get involved at all. Congress says the president, per the Constitution, must get its approval before taking any action. The president, as we know, has a bad habit of ignoring Congress and the Constitution and doing as he pleases. Flashback to the Bush years when then President Bush was contemplating going into Iraq. Vice President Joe Biden, then a Senator, vowed to start impeachment proceedings if Bush did not consult Congress before committing troops to Iraq. Click the video:
Of course, Mr. Biden has said a lot of things over the years that have eventually come back to bite him in the butt. Do you think he has advised the president on this one?
No doubt President Obama now regrets his 'red line' comment of a year ago. Syria could become Obama's Iraq. Will he take the fight to President Assad or just lob an obligatory missile into a land fill and say, "There, I did it?" Just askin.'
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