Obama's Born-Again Missile Envy Over Syria: Wrong on All Counts

[unhappycamper]

http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/pierre-tristam/51527/obamas-born-again-missile-envy-over-syria-wrong-on-all-counts

Obama's Born-Again Missile Envy Over Syria: Wrong on All Counts
by Pierre Tristam | September 8, 2013 - 9:01am

Here we go again. The United States is about to attack yet another Arab country over flimsy evidence that the regime used chemical weapons, with no clear strategy, no idea what to do next if the attack escalates a conflict that’s never been America’s to worry about, and no viable plan if Syria’s maggoty but lethal allies—Iran, across the gulf from the Arab Peninsula, and Hezbollah in Lebanon—decide to slosh after their share of blood.

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Cue the Crayola version of Obama’s moralism, and a red line is drawn. And this is the guy I voted for thinking he’d help America finally grow up from the Strangelove juvenalia of the Bush years.

Firing a few dozen cruise missiles is not going to cripple Assad’s regime. It is going to have the same effect as President Clinton’s missile attack on Sudan and Afghanistan in 1998 after the bombings of U.S. embassies in East Africa. That attack demolished a medicine factory and drew ridicule for its symbolic stupidity. Barack Obama turning Syria into another American front is a grave mistake that has unintended consequences written all over it (talk about collateral damage). It would be as reckless as attacking Iran over nuclear weapons, even if Iran possessed them. (Pakistan does, and it’s a more dangerous country than Iran has been: keep in mind that Osama bin laden lived for years unmolested within a few miles of the trigger bank of Pakistan’s nukes.)

And where’s the proof that the Syrian regime launched the attack? We were told that Obama was going to make a clear and irrefutable case that the Assad regime was responsible for the attacks that killed hundreds of civilians on Aug. 21. We have yet to see that proof. Maybe Colin Powell wasn’t available to make the case. What we do have is even flimsier than what George W. Bush had when he claimed Saddam Hussein stockpiled weapons of mass destruction. We have one intercepted phone call from an alleged Syrian military official who thinks the attack turned out to be larger than planned. Who that official is, how do we know that he is tied to the regime, what proof do we have that the administration isn’t making all this up? Don’t ask. Obama won’t tell. Curveball must have relatives.

[grahamhgreen]

1. His proof is secret evidence and classified documents, that would

Jeopardize national security if you saw it.

[warrant46]

2. He's meeting with 6 network Anchors today

In an attempt to recruit a Pom Pom squad to cheer USA USA USA