Today (Tuesday) the White House began to lay out a public justification for a possible bombing of Syria, saying the nation’s use of chemical weapons is a threat to U.S. interests — a scenario that would allow Obama to order military strikes against Syria without requiring authorization from Congress or the United Nations.
I don’t quite see what the threat to our interests is, but I guess he does.
In the meantime, Carla del Ponte, a member of the U.N. Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria, told Swiss TV there were “strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof,” that rebels seeking to oust Bashar al-Assad had used the nerve agent. She said “Testimony from victims strongly suggests it was the rebels, not the Syrian government, that used Sarin nerve gas.”
So who knows where the truth lies. Maybe everyone should all calm down until the UN inspectors have finished their job.
Bob C