NBC News has now informed us (http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/05/15706380-syria-loads-chemical-weapons-into-bombs-military-awaits-assads-order?lite):
"The Syrian military is prepared to use chemical weapons against its own people and is awaiting final orders from President Bashar Assad, U.S. officials told NBC News on Wednesday.
The military has loaded the precursor chemicals for sarin, a deadly nerve gas, into aerial bombs that could be dropped onto the Syrian people from dozens of fighter-bombers, the officials said.
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U.S. officials stressed that as of now, the sarin bombs hadn't been loaded onto planes and that Assad hadn't issued a final order to use them. But if he does, one of the officials said, 'there's little the outside world can do to stop it.'"
Nothing the world can do? NATO couldn't possibly consider destroying Assad's planes on the ground?
And here I thought President Obama had warned Bashar al-Assad:
"The use of chemical weapons is and would be totally unacceptable and if you make the tragic mistake of using these weapons, there will be consequences and you will be held accountable."
Assad, long courted by Obama, was never very stable, and quite honestly there is no way of knowing whether or not he will bomb the rebels with chemical weapons if his grip on Damascus grows even weaker.
Unlike Jimmy Carter, Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry and Barbara Walters, I have never had the "honor" of meeting this mass murderer, but I would be willing to bet that he will not allow his body and that of his wife to be dragged through the streets of the Syrian capital.
Does Obama's threat, "there will be consequences," remind you of anything? It should. Recall how Obama also told the Iranians regarding his demand that they halt their nuclear weapons development program, "I don't bluff." We all know how seriously the mullahs have regarded Obama's admonition.
"There will be consequences"? "I don't bluff"? In fact, much akin to Chance the Gardener, Obama "likes to watch."
I was thinking ...
ReplyDeleteWith "No-drama-Obama the world is full of drama"
This is the worst president for the present disintegration to which he's contributed so significantly. It's tragic that illiterate New Agers who didn't have an hour of history in their lives decide who's the president of "the free world."
The world isn't Hollywood and it doesn't need elegant posers, but strong realistic determined leaders. This is no way to run a country, let alone the world.
Hard to believe, but I miss Reagan.
Well said,Anon.
ReplyDeleteRegarding Obama's "consequences" statement,mind you that he didn't say that the US would reach out wth a fist,rather he was referring to the world community responding,which,in my opinion,is a cloak of weakness on his own action.