John Kerry is heard sounding like the US is going to start a full campaign in Syria soon. Apparently someone is trying so hard to make Obama look much worse than George Bush. After 9/11, Mr. Bush was convinced that Iraq was the nexus of the War on Terror, and so he sheepishly marched the US into perfidious war that benefitted only the enemies and rivals of the United States. In the decade of the Iraq war, China grew stronger economically and militarily, while the US grew much weaker morally.
Now someone is trying to distract this administration further, and perhaps put the final nail on the delegitimizing parade of the Obama presidency. What could be worse than taunting Obama into another faux war in Iraqi neighbor, Syria? Assad is not the good guy. But Al Qeda is?
Syria, like most countries in the Middle East, nay in the world, is a complex nation. The issues are thorny and vexing. America, like the so called international community must stand for something. The world must endorse and whenever possible enforce a sane principle of global human dignity. But US military attack in Syria on the basis of a faux chemical attack, that was more likely the work of the rebels than that of the government is not the foundation for a proxy war in Syria.
The American government needs to see beyond its geo-political blinders of how toppling Assad will aid its friends (The Sunnis) and taunt its enemies (Iran and Russia). There are difficult choices in Syria, but toppling Assad may no longer be the right one.
Now someone is trying to distract this administration further, and perhaps put the final nail on the delegitimizing parade of the Obama presidency. What could be worse than taunting Obama into another faux war in Iraqi neighbor, Syria? Assad is not the good guy. But Al Qeda is?
Syria, like most countries in the Middle East, nay in the world, is a complex nation. The issues are thorny and vexing. America, like the so called international community must stand for something. The world must endorse and whenever possible enforce a sane principle of global human dignity. But US military attack in Syria on the basis of a faux chemical attack, that was more likely the work of the rebels than that of the government is not the foundation for a proxy war in Syria.
The American government needs to see beyond its geo-political blinders of how toppling Assad will aid its friends (The Sunnis) and taunt its enemies (Iran and Russia). There are difficult choices in Syria, but toppling Assad may no longer be the right one.
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