A Reuters poll last week found popular support for entering the Syrian war was only 9 percent. When Obama orders what is now seen as an inevitable attack on government forces there, he will be initiating what will likely be the first-ever military campaign of the modern era launched without popular support.
Given that Syria has weapons of mass destruction, formidable allies in Iran and Russia and is near enough to bomb Jerusalem, the idea of yet another intervention escapade does not sit well with folks here.
Secretary of State John Kerry declared that the evidence of a chemical weapons attack last week in Syria in "undeniable," but offered no proof of who did it.
Putin agrees that chemical weapons were used in Syria, but does not agree with the U.S. assessment that they were deployed by government forces rather than Islamist rebels.
Hossein Sheikholeslam, the director general of the Iranian parliament’s International Affairs bureau, says Israel will be the “first victim” of any U.S.-led military strike on Syria, predicting that President Bashar Assad’s regime would fight back against the Jewish state.
Our concern should be preventing those chemical weapons from falling into hands of Hezbollah, that should be guiding our action, not expressing moral outrage and widening the conflict.
Bob C