enhanced_deficit
12-28-2013, 04:51 PM
Although "Americam Thinker" and IBD are moderate neoconish media outlets, this headline is priceless:
December 7, 2013
Obama is a Disgraceful Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Ed Lasky
President Obama helped Syria violate Geneva Protocol of 1925, Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 and violated them himself. Investors Business Daily (http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-perspective/120513-681885-obama-sacrifices-syria-victims-for-iran-deal.htm) explains how Obama's secret negotiations with Tehran and his "red line" posturing on Syria led to this violation of a treaty obligation:
Obama issued his crucial statement in Stockholm on Aug. 20: ". .. a red line for us is (sic) we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized. That would change my calculus."
Much has been written about the "red line" threat and the implications of not acting on it. Yet it is the other part of the sentence that has had dramatic significance by establishing a quantitative threshold, "a whole bunch," before the U.S. would respond to chemical weapons use. Less than a "whole bunch" of chemical weapons, the president signaled, would not elicit consequences.
The U.S. therefore repeatedly refrained from reacting to limited deployments of gas by Syria.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/12/obama_is_a_disgraceful_nobel_peace_prize_laureate. html (http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/12/obama_is_a_disgraceful_nobel_peace_prize_laureate. html#ixzz2ooRsiHqe)
December 7, 2013
Obama is a Disgraceful Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Ed Lasky
President Obama helped Syria violate Geneva Protocol of 1925, Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 and violated them himself. Investors Business Daily (http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-perspective/120513-681885-obama-sacrifices-syria-victims-for-iran-deal.htm) explains how Obama's secret negotiations with Tehran and his "red line" posturing on Syria led to this violation of a treaty obligation:
Obama issued his crucial statement in Stockholm on Aug. 20: ". .. a red line for us is (sic) we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized. That would change my calculus."
Much has been written about the "red line" threat and the implications of not acting on it. Yet it is the other part of the sentence that has had dramatic significance by establishing a quantitative threshold, "a whole bunch," before the U.S. would respond to chemical weapons use. Less than a "whole bunch" of chemical weapons, the president signaled, would not elicit consequences.
The U.S. therefore repeatedly refrained from reacting to limited deployments of gas by Syria.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/12/obama_is_a_disgraceful_nobel_peace_prize_laureate. html (http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/12/obama_is_a_disgraceful_nobel_peace_prize_laureate. html#ixzz2ooRsiHqe)