The Hill: Reports the following from the Obama White House, " ..press secretary Jay Carney on Wednesday declined to deny reports that President Obama is moving closer to providing arms to rebel groups in Syria. ".
Lets Get Real:
It not if President Obama states a red line, its if the US states a red line, one can postulate that Assad of Syria will see the weak response from the Oval as a green light to carry on killing his own people, using guns, planes, tanks, and WMD, it is that simple folks. If a US President says this and no further then it should be seen as a line that should never be crossed, the weasel words of the Oval is a threat to the authority of the US Presidency, one can see Iran and North Korea looking on and thinking they will chance their arm, Tehran will go nuclear and North Korea might try something on with South Korea. The Obama Oval is clever, Obama is no fool, he understands that Vietnam destroyed the Johnson Presidency and his Great Society and Iraq left Bush 43 one of the most unpopular Presidents in modern history, his domestic agenda stalled on the Hill. On the other hand Obama knows that if Assad gives chemical weapons to his terrorists allies then Israel will go ALL in, no matter the view of the Oval, also the Syrian Civil War is causing internal problems in Jordan, Turkey, Lebanon and Iraq, a full scale regional war and Israel would make the Obama legacy look bad, thus the above move, its small, but its something, there are not great options in Syria, but not doing anything is no longer an option, events, events folks.
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