Obama wants a war in Syria. Why his handlers want this, I don’t know. The best guess I have seen is so that the Gulf can build a natural gas pipeline across Syria–that Assad is presumably resisting in return for Russian favors, since Russia would lose marketshare and margin with new competition.
So, having failed to make his case a year or so ago that we should be supporting the very ISIS bastards and psychopaths he now wants to bomb, he is now saying he will bomb them anyway, in Syria, in what Assad has said will be an act of war. If he is smart, Assad will let Obama do this. But if ego or stupidity get in the way, he might use some of his Russian anti-aircraft missiles against us. Then Obama gets his pretext, maybe.
This seems doubtful to me, though. Do we really want a situation in which we are fighting BOTH sides in Syria? I would not support a war even in those circumstances. I personally don’t understand how we can’t confine our activities to Iraq, which we more or less assumed custody for when we invaded. What made sense to me seems, maybe, to be what is happening, which is somewhere between a few hundred to a few thousand Spec. Ops types wandering around sniping, calling in air strikes, and occasionally laying ambushes, optimally with local troops. ISIS thinks it is legit. A thousand dead on their side from people actually willing and able to fight would change their tune.
But the people behind Obama live in realms of abstraction. They do not do practical things for a living. They are not responsible at the end of the day for a work performance whose utility they can demonstrate. They are functional imbeciles, and there is no containing the stupidity of determined idiots, when backed by the power of America’s CEO.
Just putting it out there. Let’s hope an understanding of their very, very fragile standing in the polls, and the strong likelihood of getting their asses handed to them in November, keeps all of these turncoat sacks of shit on the straight and narrow.