Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Qusair Falls - a Black Day for Obama's Middle East Non-policy
The town of Qusair has fallen to al-Assad forces. It is deserted, pocked with mortar holes and downed buildings. Al-Assad's army is bulldosing the rubble. The rebels are dead, captured or fled with the Syria Free Army. They didn't have enough ammunition to withstand Tuesday's final regime assault. The al-Assad camp is celebrating but it seems clear that they would not have retaken Qusair without the help of the Lebanese Hezbollah. And the Syria Free Army is vowing to retaliate for its defeat in Qusair against Hezbollah in Lebanon. ~~~~~ So, dear readers, as has consistently been the case in Syria, the timidity of the West and the refusal of President Obama to agree to arming the rebels, has led to more, not less, bloodshed. The Syria Free Army will pursue Hezbollah beyond Syrian borders. Extremist Islamists will strengthen their place in the rebel forces. Al-Assad will be more sure of his position and go after other rebel strongholds with full force. France and Britain have proved to their satisfaction that he is using sarin nerve gas and are ready to act. Obama wants more proof. The US Senate is ready to act. President Obama's reaction is to accept the resignation of Tom Donilon, his national security advisor, to be replaced by that bastion of Obama non-policy, UN Ambassador Susan Rice. Shuffling the deck chairs will not hide the lack of a policy or the will to form one. Listen to the world, Mr. Obama, and act now to save what is left of the Syrian people. Do not depend on Israel to hold off a sectarian Middle East war alone. Israel's job is to defend herself, to be America's ally (these roles are being well carried out) and to support US Middle East policy - but it is difficult to support what does not exist.
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We, the U.S. of A, should be ashamed of ourselves.
ReplyDeleteSUSAN RICE is to be the national security Adviser ... OMG have we really sunk that low. Dose anyone within ear shot remember ... BENGHAZI and her LIES about what happened.
ReplyDelete"Tell Me It Ain't So Joe"
To loosely quote a bible verse ... "You reap what you sow"
ReplyDeleteObama's foreign policy or lack there of just had to hit a disastrous bottom sooner or later. When you do nothing, you can only expect nothing (or in this case negative results) in return.
Was Obama hoping for the Good fairy of Foreign Policy to swing down and fix his mess. Doesn't happen that way Mr. President. Foreign policy is made up of expert advisers, digging in, getting yours hands soiled, possibly loosing a time or two, learning the robes by contact, lending you name and position to a cause, and in the end winning. Obama has failed to perform any of these steps, so therefore what he just saw happen in Syria is only the apposite result he could have expected.
Of course the looser in all this is really the Syrian people who wish for freedom and self determination. Mr. Obama has already convinced himself that none of this was due to the the absent "OBAMA FOREIGN POLICY"
should have read ... "absolute result he could have expected". Sorry
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