So this is how we decide military action under Obama’s leadership.
White House officials cautioned that Obama was still considering the options, but the administration appeared positioned to act quickly once he chooses a course. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said during a visit to Brunei that the Pentagon was prepared to strike targets in Syria and hinted that such a move could come within days.
Some experts said U.S. warships and submarines in the eastern Mediterranean could fire cruise missiles at Syrian targets as early as Thursday night, beginning a campaign that could last two or three nights. Obama leaves next Tuesday for a four day trip to Sweden and Russia, which strongly supports Assad’s government, for the G-20 economic summit.
One U.S. official who has been briefed on the options on Syria said he believed the White House would seek a level of intensity “just muscular enough not to get mocked” but not so devastating that it would prompt a response from Syrian allies Iran and Russia.
*facepalm*
Uh, how in the world does “not being mocked” support the national security of the United States? I mean that is the reason for our military, the main job of our Commander in Chief.
When it comes down to it Obama has stupidly backed himself into a corner with all his “red line” crap months ago. Now that the French believe Assad has crossed that line everyone is waiting for Obama to follow through.
And now he doesn’t want to, excuse my french, look like a pussy in front of the world.
Smart diplomacy in the Obama age I suppose.
And the thing is I doubt Assad was behind this chemical attack at all. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was the rebels. They are the only ones who have anything to gain from this attack.
But I’m guessing with a cabinet composed of National Security Adviser Rice and CIA Director Brennan it’s a bit difficult to put all the pieces to the puzzle together. Not exactly a brain trust there.
Right now al-Qaeda in Syria are being killed….that IS in the interest of our national security so just stay out of it.
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Your quote is completely unsourced, but your headline implies it was Obama who said it.
So tell me, why should anyone trust you when your headline basically pretends Obama said something that he did not and then make fun of him for it?
You hate Obama – fine, that’s your right. But why not actually quote what he said or criticize what he actually did?
Obama has no intelligent men and women around him to assist him in making momentous decisions.
His buddy Valerie Jarrett is just a Chicago operative.
Susan Rice allowed herself to be his toady five times on one Sunday TV day.
His CIA director Brennen might have converted to Islam while in Saudi Arabia. He refused to use a Bible when he took his oath. He used a PRE-Bill Of Rights version of the Constitution instead.
I bet he gives the UN it’s time to get a study done.
I would.
Heck, I’d give Syria all the time in the world to allow Assad’s men and al Qaeda’s men to fight themselves silly.
rewinn
you don’t know what you are talking about,
get your facts right
and rewind your record,
Coming to the aid of al Qaeda is walking the razor’s edge. The Egyptian people chose to shut down Obama’s allies, the MB through their military. This has made Obama look incompetent in his efforts at establishing Sharia Law in new nations. Deposing secular despots to impose Islamic homicidal maniacs is a new concept for America; there is no guide book to follow for instruction. Consequently, Obama moves with stealth to avoid appearing like the fumbling fool who tries nation building through Islamic fundamentalism.
It seems like yesterday, Biden was changing his underwear hourly, after a despot gassed Kurds by the tens of thousands and President Bush threatened retaliation. Now, the anti-war protesters are all quiet on the western front because we have a president who wants to destroy ambivalent ME allies and install proxies for the enemy we were fighting.
Conservatives, tell your sons not to enlist or reenlist, this is insanity. Going to war for a lunatic and turning America’s war machine on people who stand in the way of a new Caliphate is wrong.
What we’ve got in quotations are the words of some anonymous, opportunistic political ass-wipe who attended a classified briefing concerning an extraordinarily dangerous international situation, and figured it was just one more opportunity to get in a cheap shot at the Commander in Chief who actually has to deal with that situation.
@Greg:
What are you saying? That the CIC does not command the respect, and loyalty, of his underlings? Or do you think that Obama just invites everyone to classified briefings? When was the last one you were invited to?
I’m saying exactly what I said. My apologies for including a few words in excess of 3 syllables.
@Greg:
So what you said was that someone was ripping on Obama that was high enough in stature to be included in a classified briefing. That is a clear indication that the person doing the ripping didn’t seem to have much respect, or loyalty, toward Obama as CIC.
Not surprising considering Obama’s total failure as a CIC, especially in Middle East policies.
Greg, the only problem with your idea that this is just an anonymous leaker who hasn’t got the nod of the head of Obama is that Obama comes down awful hard real fast when someone leaks what he doesn’t want leaked.
But Obama arranges all the leaks he does want leaked and no heads roll ever.
@Nan G: Ohh! That one ripped the blade from belly to brisket.
Greg
translation from that person,
is: OBAMA is doing his personal agenda to make it look that he stood up to his promisses
and met his red line, without disturbing any one on each side, or disturbing RUSSIA IRAN, CHINA,
NORTH KOREA, AND OTHER,
Israel will be gone. Sooner of later, one of the idiots will deploy a nuclear device. It will contaminate the region for fifty plus years.
rewinn, life is hard,it’s even harder when you are a liberal and a hard-core democ”rat”.
You all need to play nice.
It is on the record that the Press Secretary said specifically that “regime change is not under consideration”.
Even John McLame, apologizer-in-chief, is unable to understand a military action which is spelled out in detail prior to the “attack”. One of the principles of war is surprise. If you do not use surprise, your enemy will know what you intend to do.
D’oh.
Play it as you will; the Administration does not wish to harm Syria.
@retire05, #8:
Yep. Lately republicans have been electing opportunists and total idiots to positions of trust. If you buy an idiot a ticket to Congress, he or she gets in the door. Don’t blame Obama for sending the invitation.
@Greg:
Like Nancy Pelosi, Jim McDermott, Maxine Waters, Sheila Jackson-Lee, John (Read The Bill?) Conyers, et al?
Or maybe you meant “Call Me Senator” Barbara Boxer, Joe Biden, et al?
Those idiots?
This attribution from Obama, if it isn’t proven to have been uttered from his mouth, is entirely in line with the liberal/leftist view of military operations. The left doesn’t have a clue how to wage war. You do not EVER telegraph your planned operations, and you take overwhelming force to kill your enemy and destroy his capability to fight back. It is suicide to go in half-assed, thinking a limp-wristed girly slap will cause your enemy to throw down his weapons and surrender. Launching cruise missiles by themselves will raise a rukus but will not end the conflict, no matter what noncombat nincompoops say….unless you tip them all with nukes….hardly justifiable in this scenario.
If one accepts the argument that we have a morale obligation to attack Syria, (which I certainly do not) then morality requires you go all the way, including having a plan to erect a stable government in the aftermath. Unless one wants to argue that the US has a morale obligation to be the world’s policeman AND that we have the financial resources available for such an undertaking, then there is absolutely no justification for a US attack on Syria. Afghanistan and Iraq were fomenting worldwide terrorism, and were seen as a threat to tbe US. The invasion went well, but all tbe leftist resistence to completing what we started led to tbe tenuous situations we have there now. It is beyond hypocritcal that the left is now shrieking for us to attack Syria when there is no threat to the US, we don’t have a morale imperative as all tbe players in Syria including the rebels are bad guys, and our economy is in the toilet.
These drums for war are nothing more than leftists wanting to shore up their military masculinity. It is the stench of cravenness.
Yeah, that must be it…
Republicans urge Obama to enforce Syria ‘red line,’ oppose deploying troops
Republicans implore Obama: Get off the sidelines on Syria issue; U.N. to visit attack site
US Republican Hawks Line Up in Support of Syria Strikes
This is the same sort of republican schizophrenia we saw in connection with Libya.
@retire05: Please do not leave out patticake murky and upchuck scummer and fauxcahantas, and balmie fwank, and – and — and al fwanken, and of course there are the RINO’s: goober, and mcLAME, and — da list do go on and on
Greg
the REPUBLICANS you refer to are ONLY McCAIN,
@Greg:
Senile John McCain and his ilk are not conservatives.
And as to your point about republican schizophrenia, I would simply state that, yes when someone in the republican party starts acting like a democrat and supporting assinine positions, conservatives do not blindly go along with stupidity for party solidarity, unlike the left.
@Greg:
McCain and Graham (maybe they brought Ayotte along on this one too).
McCain shouldn’t have been reelected and Graham will (by the grace of God) be sent packing.
Obama’s “red line” statement was stupid, but I’m hoping he stays out.
I may very well stand up in my living room and give Obama a standing ovation if he publicly tells McCain to shut the hell up.
NOW THIS IS OF MOST IMPORTANCE,
the real procedure before they start shooting the air weapons and bombs is to,
number one very important call to stop from both sides and start talking to each other
not as angry animal but as reasonable human being, trying to end that long civil war,
trying yes to stop that war forever, which demand intelligent exchange from both sides,
NO ONE HAS DONE IT SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE REBELLION TILL NOW,
and the UNITED STATES AND THE FREE COUNTRY ALONG NON PARTISAN ON THE CONFLICT OPPONENT COULD BE THE IN BETWEEN HELPER, AND THIS HAS TO BE GIVEN ENOUGH TIME LIKE A MONTH OR CHOSEN BY BOTH, FROM BEGINNING TO END,NO ONE MUST BE ATTACKING THE OTHER, IN THAT CRUCIAL TIME, THE MOST IMPORTANT TIME OF THIS CONFLICT, YES THE LAST CHANCE TO PEACEFULLY END IT,
AND THE LEADERS ON BOTH SIDES ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR FIGHTERS NOT TO ATTACK, OTHERWISE IT WILL END THE TALK AND RESTART THE WAR, AND THOSE WHO BREACH THE TALK WILL BECOME THOSE ENEMIES OF THEIR COUNTRY AND DEALT WITH SEVERELY AS, BY THE FREE COUNTRIES,
THAN ONLY THAN WE CAN THINK OF OTHER WAY,
I’d say it’s about three years or more too late for that. Obama has been mocked by the world since he went on his apology tour. After he does what ever he does with Syria, he his new worry will be about being ridiculed.
Uh, how in the world does “not being mocked” support the national security of the United States?
Did you forget that obama won the Nobel PEACE prize, not the Nobel WAR prize. Is it possible for him to get a second Nobel PEACE prize?
OBAMA’S PREPARATION LIST FOR ATTACKING SYRIA
(1) Decide what the targets will be.
(2) Decide when the attacks will start.
(3) Decide how long to engage the enemy.
(4) Decide when the attacks will end.
(5) Tell the enemy what the targets will be.
(6) Tell the enemy when the attacks will start.
(7) Tell the enemy how long we will engage them.
(8) Tell the enemy when the attacks will end.
Make sure my nomination for the Nobel Peach prize gets submitted.
Since the areas we will attack won’t have any people or military equipment in them, there won’t be any people heart, and very little other damage will be done.
If obama would have drawn his RED LINE in pig’s blood, no Muslim would have crossed it. Let’s put a red line of pig’s blood around every area we don’t want Muslims to be. We should post guard pigs along the Mexican border, and guard pigs at every other entry point into the USA. Every home should have a guard pig. Pig’s blood could be added to mace and sold as Muslim repellent.
Instead of using smart bombs, we could parachute pig bombs. Muslims aren’t supposed to walk where pigs have walked. Our soldiers should wear items made out of pig skins. The military could train attack pigs to enter suspected buildings, then wait for any Muslims to come running out. They don’t dare come out fighting. They are now UNCLEAN, and have to go through a long cleansing process. If they die before they are cleansed, they won’t go to their heaven or get their 72 virgins.
This reminds me of the “SAFEST RESTAURANT ON EARTH”.
http://www.strangepolitics.com/content/item/178344.html
After writing the above, I wondered why we can’t train pigs to enter buildings and seek people out, and keep pigs around areas we don’t want them to enter, then keep expanding the are. The Koran says that a mosque can’t be built where pigs have walked, and Muslims aren’t supposed to walk there either.
Smorgasbord
great idea, a pig repellent for AFGHANISTAN ENEMIES,
JUST THE GRUNT OF THE PIGS WOULD MAKE THEM FREAKED OUT OF THEIR WAR,
WE MUST EXPAND YOUR IDEA, SHOES MADE WITH PIG’S FEET
WITH THE SCENT, PIG’S SKIN JACKET UNTREATED,FOR THE MILITARY,
PIG’S OIL RUBBING THE BULLETS, PIGS GRUNT IN A LOUD SPEAKER,
PORC CHOPS FOR THE MILITARY
BYE
this SYRIA AGGRESSION from THIS PRESIDENT COULD DRAG ALL THE ALLIES INTO A WORLD WAR 3
AND THINK THAT WE HAVE THEIR SUPPORTERS RIGHT HERE WITH US,
“Just enough not to be mocked”. Looks like Assad’s kid has mocked him.
oil guy from Alberta
hi,
I hope you did not have too much trouble by the flood previously,
I SENT YOU A COMMENT AND YOU PROBABLY DID NOT GET IT,
NICE TO HAVE YOU BACK HERE,
BYE
Uht oh. The 11 year old son of Assad just double-dog dared Obama to attack Syria on his FaceBook page.
OBAMA NEVER SHOW HIS OUTRAGE WHEN THE EGYPT MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD
KILLED THE COPTIC CHRISTIANS AND BURNED THEIR HOUSE AND CHURCH,
BUT HE ASK ASSAD to resign SOME TIME AGO AND KEPT SAYING ASSAD MUST GO,, and had a no ANSWER HE CARRY THE BITTERNESS OF HAVING BEEN REFUSE, LIKE GADAFI DID, and was attack shortly after , he also has lost all his billions in the GOLD SACK business, JUST BEFORE,
SO ASSAD WOULD GET THE SAME FOR REFUSING OBAMA,