Barack Obama
In reply to the discussion: BOG post: "Obama is Outsmarting Everyone and Winning on Syria Without Firing a Shot" [View all]sheshe2
(87,498 posts)It is hair on fire##$@!&*)*&_(&) Obama= Bush crowd, that spew this crap about Syria. They are lighting up the front page with their lies and innuendos about this President and SOS John Kerry. They believe they are privy to ongoing negotiations. They believe they know far more than our President. They are wrong. They are in fact woefully lacking any qualified information. Their only wish is to slam this President. They have proven that time and time again.
President Obama admitted that he had been discussing the international option on Syria with Putin since last year.
It turns out that all of the people on the left and right who were fooled by the pundits and hosts on cable news into believing that war was just around the corner were absolutely, completely, totally, utterly wrong. War is not around the corner. In fact, President Obama had a strategy to get Syria to the table. That strategy was to get the United States talking about striking Syria by asking Congress for authorization.
If President Obama wanted to strike Syria, he could have done so at any time. He didnt, because military action in Syria was not what he wanted. The president wanted Syria to surrender their chemical weapons to the international community, and the best way to get Russia to listen was to turn up the heat by letting Congress debate a potential military strike on Syria.
http://www.politicususa.com/2013/09/09/president-obama-outsmarting-winning-syria-firing-shot.html
Thank you Cha, excellent thread!