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Here's Barack Obama after being forced
to concede that Syrian tyrant Bashar al-Assad probably used chemical
weapons against people in Syria:
“And what we now have is evidence
that chemical weapons have been used inside of Syria, but we don't
know how they were used, when they were used, who used them. We
don't have a chain of custody that establishes what exactly happened.
” [Press conference, 4/30/13, WH transcript.]
That sounds like objections Assad's
defense lawyer would make, if Assad were on trial.
Obama isn't talking about “red lines”
anymore. Now it's “game changers.” Specifically, IF he could
REALLY REALLY prove Assad did it, and did it A LOT, why, then he'd
reexamine his options.
Furthermore, "For the Syrian
government to utilize chemical weapons on its people crosses a line
that will change my calculus and how the United States approaches
these issues," Obama said April 26th.
Uh-oh, his calculus might change! And
that's not all...
"I've meant what I said."
So watch out, Assad!
Of course, it isn't irrational for
Obama to try and avoid getting sucked into Syria. The problem is he
was bluffing about that “red line,” and Assad is calling him on
it.
And of course, the U.S. is constantly
being exposed as insincere when its fine rhetoric about human rights
and freedom and democracy and blah blah runs smack up against the
reality of its actions, actions that reveal that it is just another
power mad, greedy empire, ruled by ruthless, selfish politicians (who
in the case of the U.S., do the bidding of an elite class of
super-rich people).
More fundamentally, in a normal human
world, people wouldn't be living under tyrants like Assad. There
wouldn't be horrible torture-murder regimes like that. And if there
were, other nations would fight to free the people oppressed under
those regimes, especially when they rebel against their oppressors.
That all sounds so utopian, doesn't it?
The fact that it does starkly reveals how how far we are from
existing on a human level in this world.
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