Considering AIPAC and Israel are obsessed with a nuclear Iran and that country a close ally of Syria's Assad, they would like nothing better than an American aerial strike in Syria, retaliation by Iran to defend Assad's regime that would then justify a U.S./Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, an escalation with catastrophic implications and a potential for a worldwide conflagration.
But getting back to Obama, the Syrian imbroglio he created with his "red line" in the sand rhetoric that boxed him in with "saving face" and "keeping his word" the thin notions he's leaning on, even if the president prevails and gets Congress' blessing to attack Syria it still won't be "legal". There's the sticky little matter of the U.N. charter and the U.S. being an original signee that says a country must be in imminent danger of attack or been attacked before they can take action against another country. And Syria didn't attack the U.S.
As for U.S. standing in the world it's at a low point internationally particularly with Edward Snowden's NSA revelations of "no such agency" snooping in on all the electronic communications of both friends and foes alike. That international standing can only plummet further with a U.S. strike on Syria.
Then again the U.S. government stopped caring long ago about the international community and just put on the faà §ade it followed international norms and the rule of law.
Only some naà ¯ve American people still believe the U.S. is doing good deeds in the world. Those on the other end of U.S. drone attacks and missile strikes, been attacked by JSOC raids in the middle of the night killing innocents as they slept know the truth. Add in the lies that precipitated the 2003 invasion of Iraq and even the British M.P.'s have seen the light and voted not to be a part of further U.S. aggression in Syria.
Now we have to endure a week of war mongering bloviating in Washington with another U.S. unnecessary war likely on the horizon. Unfortunately insanity prevails.
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