According to the New York Times the purpose of a US reprisal military attack on Assad's Syria for using gas weapons against his own people is to ... "Restore a ‘Red Line’ That Became Blurred."
What ???
How the Hell do you restore something that never existed ?
In the power politics of the Middle East (and elsewhere in the world, for that matter) words and actions are linked; when they're not - there's no credibility.
Commenting on Obama's inaction, Barry Pavel, director of the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security at the Atlantic Council in Washington said, "He puts the red line out and then a small scale use of chemical weapons happens and he doesn’t do anything, so Assad thinks, ‘Hey, they didn’t do anything.’ So there’s a large scale use. I don’t think Obama could figure a way out of it without acting.”
Do you really need any better example of incompetence in leadership ?
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