Note to Assad: Don’t cross our red line by using chemical weapons
These events play out in the shadow of Assad’s inventory of chemical weapons. As domestic disorder escalates and the Assad regime becomes more eager to regain control, public reports suggest that the regime may be preparing to use chemical weapons. When it comes to chemical weapons, we must be clear and unequivocal: If the United States receives credible intelligence that the Assad regime is using — or preparing to use — chemical weapons against the Syrian people, we will respond with swift and devastating military force.
Before that happens, we must renew our efforts to create a more stable Syria. It is clear that the current U.S. approach — focusing on diplomatic pressure and economic sanctions while offering next to no military assistance — simply has not worked. For far too long, the United States has ignored pleas for military aid and avoided opportunities to shape both the nature of the Syrian opposition and the direction of this conflict. Because of this passivity, our allies and the Syrian opposition are skeptical of our support and credibility.
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“Don’t make me count to 3…….1…..2……2 and a half….2 and three quarters….”
BobMbx on March 16, 2013 at 2:07 PM
That red line keeps changing
vcferlita on March 16, 2013 at 2:09 PM
Huh?
You guys were the idiots whose Congressional delegation violated the Constitution and conducted their own foreign policy to visit the chinless wonder, coming back to declare the worm a “real reformer”.
Leftists love their anti-Western dictators (like Q’Daffy) and then like to act as if they had never backed the slugs after they find even more anti-Western slimeballs to replace them.
Syria, and how Syrians kill each other, is none of America’s business or interest. Syria’s support of islamist terrorists (hezbollah, Iraqi terrorists, and the like) was America’s interests but we didn’t do squat in those cases. Now, when Syrians are killing each other (which is only slightly less fortunate for civilization than the Iraqis and Iranians killing each other) these leftist Assad-loving slugs want to act as if they care about Western (and even American – LOL!) interests. It would be funny if it weren’t so friggin pathetically dangerous and destructive.
ThePrimordialOrderedPair on March 16, 2013 at 2:23 PM
Interfering with Iraq’s ability to deploy WMDs: Bad
Interfering with Syria’s ability to deploy WMDs: Good
Something tells me he’s hiding a variable here…
chimney sweep on March 16, 2013 at 2:23 PM
Syria has something besides a pitiful pile of “bathtub”-quality WMD’s and low-quality ingredients.
MelonCollie on March 16, 2013 at 2:34 PM
Meanwhile, the American Socialist Superstate is about to release an airplane bomber:
Airline bomber set to be released from prison
Talk about crossing red lines …
ThePrimordialOrderedPair on March 16, 2013 at 2:35 PM
Pop quiz: where did Syria’s WMD’s come from?
chimney sweep on March 16, 2013 at 2:48 PM
The United States does not have the right to regulate how other governments act in civil wars. We don’t have the right to attack Syria just because he gasses rebels. I seem to remember the Union doing some pretty terrible things to the Confederacy in the Civil War.
I don’t think the US should be getting involved in civil wars unless we have the balls to take it the full way and install a client government, but we never do that anymore because we are so afraid of getting blamed for the crimes of our clients, so since we can’t do that, why bother? Unless you are going to install a client or a puppet, there is absolutely no reason to get involved in a civil war. Giving a bunch of no-strings charity to one side doesnt buy you anything down the line.
kaltes on March 16, 2013 at 3:17 PM
I expect the Sharia freedom rebels will set that piece of theater up if required.
The West should give them a budget to work within. Say Srebrenica X 3?
BL@KBIRD on March 16, 2013 at 3:49 PM