3 days before the Sarin gas attack that killed more than 1400 people including 400 children in Damascus, the Obama administration knew about the impending disaster but did nothing to stop it nor warn those who were targeted.
http://nypost.com/2013/09/01/us-knew-of-gas-plot-but-didnt-alert-rebels/
This suggests several things:
THAT the Obama administration didn't believe that the scale of the attack was any different than earlier ones and just like those previously, chose to deal with it in the same manner; utilizing already proven useless diplomatic gestures, and essentially disregarding the threat to spare themselves further embarrassment because of the earlier ultimatum rhetoric of both Obama and then Sec. of State, Hillary Clinton.
THAT the moral outrage expressed by Obama and his officials is insincere and public "posturing" for political purposes.
THAT the US didn't have "actionable" intelligence; that what intelligence it had was of dubious value, untimely and, or unreliable - if that is the case - it casts serious doubt on the ability of the Obama administration to determine whether or not Iran's nuclear "red line" has been or when it might be breached.
THAT the Obama administration is haphazard and inconsistent in its commitments in the region.
There have been charges by some that the Obama policy of disengagement from the region at least with respect to Syria with some 100,000 already dead in the civil war is indicative of an un-spoken US desire to allow the combatants to kill as many of each other without having to commit either US blood or treasury and speaks to the obvious reluctance on the part of Obama to provide meaningful support to the so called "moderate" anti-Assad forces - a rationale acceptable to the Obama administration as a consequence of failed Obama foreign policy which has so far produced "no good options" in Syria from a US perspective.
Because the US failed to at least alert the Assad opposition forces of its intelligence the credibility of those charges is bolstered.
Israel has and rightfully questioned whether or not it can depend upon the US to honor its commitment to Israel as an ally.
THAT Obama isn't and hasn't been serious about finding a political solution despite his public posturing because he has other agendas not publicly disclosed.
THAT the Obama administration and Obama continues to lie to Americans about what really is or is not taking place in the region in the name of the American people.
On Monday Sec. of State Kerry went off script with a colossal blunder and said that Syria should just give up its chemical weapons but they of course he surmised wouldn't do that. Putin on the other hand decided to run with it.
Russia has just announced that a workable solution would be for Syria to place all of its chemical weapons under control of an international authority and THAT would meet the Obama demands to end the threat of Assad using those weapons again and at the same time remove Obama's argument for a military strike - it would not however aid the Obama administration in its secret operations to topple the Assad regime - which the Obama administration has stated publicly that it is not trying to do - and replace Assad with a "moderate" faction more favorable to Obama's demands and interests than Putin's
.http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/09/us-syria-crisis-idUSBRE9880HY20130909
It's entirely likely that Russia will make several demands of their own on the Obama administration in exchange for Obama to escape from the mess he created in Syria such as ... oh, say just for starters....the US will agree NOT to attack Syria for any reason, that Assad remains in power, the US stop its covert actions to arm and train Anti-Assad forces., and the Israeli's submit to the same supervision of their nuclear weapons.
Assad will get a pass from having used gas weapons against Syrians and Putin will thwart the Obama agendas in the Middle East and Israel will become naked.
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