A way out
President
Obama surely must be regretting making the threat he made in August 2012 that
he would take action against Syrian President Bashar Assad if Assad used
chemical weapons against his people.
The
situation is getting more and more sticky for President Obama all the
time. President Assad is threatening to
take counter action against the United States if Obama attacks. That would mean that if President Obama
backed off now it would appear to the world that he did it because he succumbed
to Assad’s intimidation. It would have the effect of making Obama look
weak and could cause him to take action for no other reason but to show that he’s
not being intimidated.
There is a
face-saving way for President Obama to get out of this. It was reported on Fox News today that Russian
Premier Vladimir Putin is talking about urging Assad to put his chemical
weapons under United Nations’ Control.
President Obama could say that he’s holding back now till he sees what
becomes of Putin’s efforts for Assad to do that.
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