Has Assad finally crossed the Rubicon?
Here’s the HuffPost with a good summary of the developing situation: President Barack Obama said Wednesday that the United States is investigating whether chemical weapons have been deployed in Syria,...
View ArticleSyria is not our fight, ctd…
Salaheddin, Aleppo (cc photo by Freedom House) Daniel Larison competently argues that despite the neo-con base clamoring for military intervention into the bloody sectarian Syrian conflict, there is no...
View ArticleTelling the good guys from the bad guys
Sen. John McCain (cc photo by Jim Greenhill) Seantor John McCain has been adamant for years that we know very well who to arm and support in the ongoing Syrian civil war – that the good guys are...
View ArticleObama Caves On Syria, Betrays Us All
President Obama is finally giving John McCain the war he always wanted: The Obama administration, concluding that the troops of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria have used chemical weapons against...
View ArticleAmericans Say No To Syrian Intervention, continued…
A new poll by Pew Research Center released Monday finds that 70 percent of Americans oppose President Obama’s recent capitulation to send arms to Syrian rebels, while 68 percent believe the US military...
View ArticleAmericans Still Say ‘Hell No’ To Syria
YouGov provides even more proof that Americans seem to have a better handle on the Syria question than the President and his administration: So a plurality of Americans do not agree that there is a...
View ArticleAnother Iraq? Experts Question Whether Assad Actually Used Chemical Weapons
President Obama had a lot of things to cover when he spoke to Charlie Rose this week. He had to address NSA surveillance programs leaked by former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, create a...
View ArticleThe U.S. Has Been Secretly Training Syrian Rebels All Along
David Cloud of the LA Times has the exclusive, important report out of Syria: CIA operatives and U.S. special operations troops have been secretly training Syrian rebels with anti-tank and...
View ArticleBuckle Up America, We’re About To Enter Another War
I’ve been fairly vocal about my opposition to any U.S. intervention in Syria, but ever since Obama first capitulated to the war hawks like McCain (who never met a war he didn’t like), it’s seemed like...
View ArticleDid The Worst Chemical Weapons Attack In Decades Just Happen In Syria?
(YouTube Screenshot) Syrian rebels claim that Assad’s forces used chemical weapons against “women, children”, and themselves in the suburbs east of Damascus, affecting at least 1,300 people:...
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