Re: Is Obama's Public Support of the Syrian Rebels a Diversionary Foreign Policy Tact
No, I don't. I believe that he made a tough-talk statement about the use of chemical weapons being a "red line" with the USA if crossed, so once it was crossed he had to follow through.
I think it's bad policy for our country, though. We'll be arming Islamists of all hues, including Al Qaeda, and it's not a matter of "if" they use those weapons against us, it's a matter of "when".
Maybe Obama is helping wrong side. Here is the true red line.
The BRAD BLOG : Reuters: U.N. Investigators Say Syrian Rebels, Not Syrian Regime, Used Chemical Weapons
"Reuters: U.N. Investigators Say Syrian Rebels, Not Syrian Regime, Used Chemical Weapons"
"From Reuters tonight:
U.N. human rights investigators have gathered testimony from casualties of Syria's civil war and medical staff indicating that rebel forces have used the nerve agent sarin, one of the lead investigators said on Sunday.The United Nations independent commission of inquiry on Syria has not yet seen evidence of government forces having used chemical weapons, which are banned under international law, said commission member Carla Del Ponte.
"Our investigators have been in neighboring countries interviewing victims, doctors and field hospitals and, according to their report of last week which I have seen, there are strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof of the use of sarin gas, from the way the victims were treated," Del Ponte said in an interview with Swiss-Italian television.
"This was use on the part of the opposition, the rebels, not by the government authorities," she added, speaking in Italian.
So, it was the rebels, according to actual named sources, not the Syrian regime which may have used the sarin gas that set off the chain of events described above over the past week and a half?"
Isn't this the red line Obama, McCain and many others talked about?
Should we kick the rebels asses?
Now, who is the bad guy?
If we attack the rebels, do we still get the OIL? OOPS, it's never about OIL!