Does the tail wag? Foreign Policy as Farce

Let us hope there is no tail, but I have my doubts. m/r

The American Spectator : Foreign Policy as Farce

By JED BABBIN on 6.17.13 

Obama and Syria — this dog ain’t wagging

The Obama administration has reached the unenviable stage in which it’s almost impossible to determine where one scandal ends and another begins.

The most recent case in point is President Obama’s decision to kinda sorta intervene in the Syrian civil war that is now in its third year.

Consider the statement issued by the brother of CBS News president David Rhodes on Thursday. Ben Rhodes — who readers will remember played a major role in the political revisions to the CIA’s Benghazi talking points — is also Obama’s Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications, i.e., the National Security Council’s flack.

On Thursday, Ben Rhodes’s statement said that the intelligence community had concluded that in several uses of chemical weapons, the Syrian regime of Bashar Assad had killed between 100 and 150 people in the Syrian rebellion.

Later that day, Obama announced that he had decided to send arms and other military aid — so far undefined — to Syrian rebels. Even CBS yawned.

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