Denmark might be tempted. Germany is resolutely against it, stressing the only ones to benefit will be jihadis. What's troubling is that Cameron "of Arabia" and "Desert Storm" Hollande are even threatening to go around the EU.
Even though Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey still refuses a "military option," two senators in Washington, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin and Iraqi war fanatic John McCain, are already leading the Capitol Hill army.
US Secretary of State John Kerry has already imparted his blessing -- "The United States does not stand in the way of other countries that made a decision to provide arms, whether it's France or Britain or others."
And ominously, rising from the dead, the Foreign Policy Initiative -- the successor to the infamous, Iraq war-peddling, neo-con Project for a New American Century (PNAC) -- started spewing out war cheerleading press releases.
Obama, among all the hysteria, gives the impression of a (glamorous) deer caught in the headlights on a desert highway. Before posing as a tourist in Petra, Jordan, he warned about the danger of post-Assad Syria becoming a jihadi paradise.
And still the President is clueless; 10 years after "Shock and Awe," many in the Washington-Brussels axis dream of a remix that can only lead to the outcome he apparently dreads.
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