Weapons of mass destruction! He used chemical weapons on his own people. Something has to be done. He is a threat to stability in the Middle East. We are not seeking a regime change!
Great Britain just rejected the idea of taking military action in Syria. But Barack Obama apparently does not see any stark contradiction in pursuing more of a go-it-alone approach than his predecessor.
The United Nations Security Council has also refused to give its consent to a military intervention in Syria. Still Obama’s Secretary of State John Kerry beat the war drums today.
And what did candidate Obama say on the campaign-trail in 2007 to the adoration of Democrats? Obama rebuked George W. Bush in no uncertain terms, “The U.S. cannot try to bully the world into submission.”
In a 2007 essay in Foreign Affairs, Obama lamented the horrific Bush decision to break off from European allies: "In the case of Europe, we dismissed European reservations about the wisdom and necessity of the Iraq war," he said sternly.
During a July 2008 campaign speech in Berlin, Obama told Europeans this: “No one nation, no matter how large or powerful, can defeat such challenges alone.” He added this assertion, “On both sides of the Atlantic, we have drifted apart, and forgotten our shared destiny…….neither America nor Europe can turn inward.”
While Obama found it easy to plunge a rhetorical knife in Bush’s back a few years ago, it seems that W. is curiously unwilling to return the favor. He declined to comment on what the current commander-in-chief should do about Syria saying only this, "The president has to make a tough call."
It wasn’t too tough a call a few years ago when Obama pounded the table arguing against what Bush did about a man who also used chemical weapons and killed hundreds of thousands of civilians. And of course not long after Obama made those criticisms with releative ease he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize. Then he had Libya's Ghadaffi killed for similar reasons.
Looks like Assad is next. What a world.
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