There is absolutely no reason for the USA to enter Syria and if it did it would be opening up Pandora's box. I don't think the President is that stupid, is he?
It would require a UN resolution and Russia would veto such a measure. What is Obama becoming "W", Jr.? Sure looks like it. Wiping ISIL off the map, no different than killing Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, won't make a bit of difference. It would be a TROPHY. It would settle nothing.
August 21, 2014
By Michael R. Gordon and Helene Cooper
The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (click here) cannot be defeated unless the United States or its partners take on the Sunni militants in Syria, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Thursday.
But General Dempsey and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, who both spoke at a Pentagon news conference, gave no indication that President Obama was about to approve airstrikes in Syria....
It would require a UN resolution and Russia would veto such a measure. What is Obama becoming "W", Jr.? Sure looks like it. Wiping ISIL off the map, no different than killing Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, won't make a bit of difference. It would be a TROPHY. It would settle nothing.
August 21, 2014
By Michael R. Gordon and Helene Cooper
The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (click here) cannot be defeated unless the United States or its partners take on the Sunni militants in Syria, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Thursday.
“This is an organization that has an apocalyptic end-of-days strategic vision that will eventually have to be defeated,” said the chairman, Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, in his most expansive public remarks on the crisis since American airstrikes began in Iraq. “Can they be defeated without addressing that part of the organization that resides in Syria? The answer is no.”
But General Dempsey and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, who both spoke at a Pentagon news conference, gave no indication that President Obama was about to approve airstrikes in Syria....
