Assad stronger after forcing Obama to back down
Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2013 8:53 am
CAIRO -- Bashar Assad got away with it.Assad not only stepped over Obama's redline, he then bitch slapped Obama as the whole world watched. Assad has stepped up his attacks on civilians while Obama has turned his attention to immigration reform and just last week said "he" saved 100's of thousands innocent Syrians by his actions and it's time to move on. The sad part is there are people who actually believe Obama's claims of saving Syrians...all while they are slaughtered as each day passes.
Only a few months ago, Syria's president was a widely-condemned rogue leader whose police state had just launched poison gas on commuter villages outside Damascus. Fourteen-hundred people, including hundreds of children, were choked to death, their nervous systems shut down by the gas that seeped into their homes. And the world watched it happen in unprecedented detail. Images of the attack seeped into even far corners of the Internet. Assad was on the verge of losing power prior to the gas attack and everyone assumed he days not weeks remaining a president.
Yet, somehow, Assad not only got away with the gas attack, but appears to has emerged stronger after it. How is that possible? Assad would get to stay in power and continue his war with "conventional weapons," including artillery and Scud missile attacks on civilian areas, napalm dropped on schools, and starving the opposition into submission. Even more shocking is that Assad has weathered the crisis appearing to the world as reasonable, rational and ready to compromise. On top of it Assad received a billion dollars he demanded from Obama in order to start destroying his chemical weapons, discussions ended the day he received the money. Obama on the other hand came out of the incident as a keyboard warrior who backed down when the game became real.