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Oh, I am taking you very lightly. Of course he was criticized. That's what presidents receive: criticism. Look at Bush, and look at Obama. They are receiving it no matter what they do. He was criticized for not going in, then he was criticized for going in, then we was criticized for going too slowly, he was criticized for not putting boots on the ground. He is criticized for using drones in Pakistan, he is criticized for expanding the Afghan campaing. He is criticized for sending special forces into Congo. You can't avoid criticism. It is what it is, but the point is that he went in, and got the job done with absolute minimum cost and casualties. My comments answer the original comment about him being too weak to go in. He went in, and now you whine about him being criticized by Al Jazeera. Are you kidding me? They make a career out of criticizing the United States.
As for Syria, Obama will be criticized if he does something about it, and he will be criticized of he does't. You can count on it. Bush got hammered for going into Iraq, and he would have been hammered if he hadn't. It's the nature of the beast, and as long as you do not understand that, you will be taken lightly.
Is this Syria’s “doomsday ” weapon? Intelligence sources say that the Syrian air force has adapted old Russian made MIG-21 fighter aircraft to fly unmanned and carry chemical warfare materials. This information is now being investigated by a number of intelligence organizations.
A Syrian MiG-21, that landed in Jordan in June 2011 flown by a Syrian air force colonel, had been adapted to fly unmanned and carry a “deadly volume of chemical weapons. According to intelligence sources there are indications that Russian engineers helped with the upgrade.
The US feigns disassociation with act of Israeli aggression – as was planned since 2007. The West has carefully cultivated Israel into “regional bully.” Immune from international condemnation, it is now being used to commit egregious war crimes against neighboring Syria, in hopes of provoking a retaliation and giving the US and its regional axis the justification it has long sought to militarily intervene.
Unprovoked, Israel has attacked Syria numerous times over the past 2 days, including attacks on the Syrian capital of Damascus, in what appears to be a series of intentional provocations designed to drag the region into a wider conflict its US sponsors can then enter militarily. Neither attacked directly by Syria, nor able to cite credible evidence in regards to perceived threats Israel claims to be reacting to, the assault on Syria represents a Chapter VII breach of the United Nations Charter.
What’s more, is that while the US feigns disassociation with Israel’s breach of international peace, after jointly fueling a genocidal sectarian conflict within Syria’s borders for the past two years, it is documented fact that the US and Saudi Arabia planned to use Israel to conduct military attacks against Iran and Syria, they themselves could not justify politically, legally, or strategically.
What is now hoped is that Syria and Iran retaliate militarily, allowing the “other shoe to drop,” and for the US, UK, France, and their regional axis to directly intervene in Syria, and with any luck, Iran.
What Should Syria and its Allies Do?
Syria, Iran, Russia and other nations that support the besieged nation most certainly were aware of the Brookings document “Which Path to Persia?” and familiar with this strategy. It would be hoped that anything of value that the Israelis would seek to attack in order to provoke a much desired retaliation and subsequent war, would have been provided additional protection, or moved entirely out of range of potential Israeli attacks.
A media campaign to illustrate the hypocritical and very revealing convergence between Al Qaeda (the so-called Free Syrian Army or FSA) and Israeli interests would undermine whatever remaining support the battered and failing Western-backed terror campaign inside Syria may still have. Unprovoked Israeli Acts of Aggression against Syria, Prelude to a Broader War? | Global Research
I wouldn't be so fast to say that. I think he just gave Israel the "we won't interfere if you decide to do something" speech. That way the U.S. doesn't have to actually act, takes Obama off the hook having to back up his big words, Israel tells Syria to quit splashing their conflict over into Israel and gets a warm up for Iran. This also sends a message to Iran that Israel is not afraid to take action if need be nor will they be deterred by Obama if they decide to do it.
That's my "guess" at what's really going on.
So says an "unnamed Obama administration official". That means the paper made it up sell some more paper.
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