Laughing at us
From
The Daily Caller:
Assad: �Obama is weak�
Syrian president Bashar al-Assad slammed President Obama and again denied his government�s role in a chemical attack against civilians in an interview Monday with the French newspaper Le Figaro.
�For us, a strong man prevents rather than starts a war�Obama is weak because he is facing pressure from within the United States,� al-Assad said.
A bit more:
In the interview, al-Assad challenged Obama and French president Francois Hollande to present evidence that the Syrian government, which is engaged in a civil war against various rebel groups, used chemical weapons against civilians in a Damascus suburb August 21, killing 1,426 people, including children.
The White House claims that al-Assad�s military was responsible for the attack, which violated the Obama administration�s �red line� and an international norm barring the use of chemical weapons. Hollande pledged to support a U.S. intervention.
�Those who make accusations must show evidence. We have challenged the United States and France to come up with a single piece of proof. Obama and Hollande have been incapable of doing so,� al-Assad said.
Word coming out indicates that it was the islamofascists that did the Sarin Gas attack rather than Assad. I tend to believe these sources as the Muslim Brotherhood terrorists were closely aligned to Saddam Hussein and when the coalition was set to invade, there was a large convoy from Iraq into Syria.
I can see the rationale -- confuse the USA (altogether too easy) and make them attack Assad. This destabilizes the Syrian government and allows the Muslim Brotherhood to take power.
Obama and Kerry need to see that their culture of appeasement has failed spectacularly and unless they change course, the middle east will become even more of a tinderbox than it is now.
Posted by DaveH at September 3, 2013 8:54 PM