At this point I believe most thinking, informed people suspect that the Syrian ‘rebels’ committed the atrocities in Damascus. The only conceivable reason Assad would have used chemical weapons against his people would have been if he were convinced his days were numbered and he wanted to go out in a sadistic blaze of glory.
That is not the case. If anything, the ‘rebel’ cause is beginning to show weakness, and, for that reason, they have significant motive to create such a catastrophe, blame it on Assad, and hope that the West reacts in exactly the way it appears Barack Obama may be considering.
Where do Barack Obama’s loyalties lie in all of this? By most accounts, the Syrian ‘rebels’ have close ties to Islamic Jihadists, including Al Qaeda. Why would an American administration want to support such ‘rebels’? As bad as Assad has been, he would certainly represent the lesser of those two evils, at least at this point. This president is exhibiting antipathy, at best, toward American interests in the Middle East (and here at home, to be sure), and continued support of radical Islamist forces, like the Muslim Brotherhood.
There were rumors after the Benghazi massacre that the CIA was in the business of transferring weapons from Libyan weapons depots to the rebels in Syria when Ambassador Stevens, and the three other Americans, were murdered at the Benghazi consulate. If true, it would appear that this president was covertly/illegally (after all, a good part of everything this president does is covert/illegal) attempting to arm, and strengthen, the rebels back then.
Now he may in fact be playing an integral part in the charade that claims that Assad is committing genocide, when in fact the ‘rebels’ he has been supporting behind the scenes may well be the culprits. And now he is considering major military action in his quest to see that these ‘rebels’ get the upper hand – all of this being planned under the guise of something other than what it really is.
Any military action by this president will represent the worst (in terms of American interests, and American security) decision of his administration. And that decision will not be made in error. It will be calculated to achieve precisely what it achieves. As usual, this president is working against the best interests of the nation he purports to represent/lead, and his actions will not only endanger America, but they will endanger, and estrange, the few allies we have left on the globe.
I hope his ‘hope and change’ supporters are beginning to realize that this looming cataclysm isn’t what they envisioned. |
