Obama Reconsiders Attacking Assad

[unhappycamper]

http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/shamus-cooke/58649/obama-reconsiders-attacking-assad

Obama Reconsiders Attacking Assad
Syria
by Shamus Cooke | September 30, 2014 - 9:03am

Sometimes bad ideas die slowly. It was only one year ago that Obama announced he would bomb the Syrian government, only to change his mind at the last minute. Now the same fetid war talk is sprouting fresh roots in the ever-fertile U.S. military. Various media outlets reported that Obama might “enforce a no fly zone in Syria to protect civilians from the Syrian government.”

This just weeks after the U.S. public was told that ISIS was the reason the U.S. military was now in Syria. The 2014 media sound bites mimic the 2013 scare tactics, copying the “humanitarian motives” behind the push towards war with the Syrian government. For example, in 2013 The New York Times blandly discussed the “no fly zone” option:

“To establish buffer zones to protect parts of Turkey or Jordan to provide safe havens for Syrian rebels and a base for delivering humanitarian assistance would require imposing a limited no-fly zone and deploying thousands of American ground forces.”

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History is already condemning the U.S.-led destruction of multiple civilizations in the Middle East, reducing the once-functioning and modern nations of Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria to dysfunction and chaos, where millions of people flee violence and lose their dignity to the hopelessness of refugee camps. Funding rebels or imposing no fly zones in an already-demolished region will inevitably create more war and backlash.

[DonCoquixote]

1. Oh yes

Not like Hillary is not relishign the idea of inheriting a war from Obama, so she can focus on escalating it. Not like Bibi is not ready to pour Gas on those flames.

[Renew Deal]

2. Afghanistan was hardly "functioning and modern"

The Soviets and Taliban are responsible for that.

And the US is not responsible for the uprisings in Lybia and Syria. But we did pick a side in both cases and that made war and destruction more likely in both cases.