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Why would you use chemical weapons when: 1. You are winning with conventional weapons? 2. Using it brings the wrath (and action) of the Western world? On the other hand if you are the opposition and you want Western help, you might as well throw in a little chemical attack just to get the party going... Some wrath (and action), eh? This is amatuer hour on steroids. Obama let his mouth overload his ass. He has no coherent policy on Syria, or the whole ME for that matter; he's lost our biggest ally, Britain; and now he has to go hat-in-hand to a congress that he can't stop villifying. He is fast becoming the weakest President.............EVER
It's now emerging that evidence was planted to make the attack appear to be a false flag operation. So it was actually a double false flag operation.
Sorry to say.... the people who serve in America's military today are CHUMPS! They are not risking life and limb for America and its principles as did The Greatest Generation*. Today, they toil and risk for lame, greedy, corrupt politicos' personal agendas. *I'm not sure about Korea... but I also believe that those of us who served in the Vietnam War and EVER SINCE... are ALSO CHUMPS.
I saw a press conference called by McCain and Graham today. I believe they're both on the senate armed services committee. Both are calling for serious "sustained" attacks in Syria. Failure to do so will result in according to them grievous consequences for the US. I looked up the jurisdiction of this committee. * Aeronautical and space activities pertaining to or primarily associated with the development of weapons systems or military operations. *Common defense. *Department of Defense, the Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, and the Department of the Air Force, generally. *Maintenance and operation of the Panama Canal, including administration, sanitation, and government of the Canal Zone. *Military research and development. *National security aspects of nuclear energy. *Naval petroleum reserves, except those in Alaska. *Pay, promotion, retirement, and other benefits and privileges of members of the Armed Forces, including overseas education of civilian and military dependents. *Selective service system. *Strategic and critical materials necessary for the common defense. Since Syria is not a threat to the US that seems to rule out *Common defense. So why are these guys obsessed with and leading the charge against Syria, they own stock in defense contractors?
Putting an iranian puppet regime out of business could be interpreted as an american win, i suppose. Although its unclear what Obamas plans are exactly. Only very limited air strikes, or prolongued enforcement of a no fly zone, or air assistance for the FSA? Noone knows. They probably don't want to kill off the Assad regime for good either, since the country would just detoriate further into endless civil war of the countless regligious factions, a cesspit like Somalia, a staging ground for every islamist nutter around. The best(but stilly sucky) option for Obama is probably to keep the FSA/gulf-state and US friendly militas alive and preserve the status-quo with limited support, be it through supplying weapons or air strikes.