Obama's early Christmas present to Assad
Michael Rubin points out that one reason why Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad is hanging in there may be an anticipated Christmas present from Barack Hussein Obama.There is a reason why Bashar is thumbing his nose at the international community: He believes he must only wait out the next three weeks to be home free. President Obama’s withdrawal from Iraq is an early Christmas present. Syria has just one consistent ally in the region: Iran. Aerial resupply is vulnerable without control of the Iraqi airspace, and Turkish sanctions may have disrupted Iran’s supply of Syria through that former ally of Bashar al-Assad. All this changes by Christmas, however, when American forces complete their withdrawal from Iraq, in a move which Vice President Joe Biden assures us is not a victory.What could go wrong?
If Biden was once Tehran’s favorite senator, then certainly Obama is the Supreme Leader’s fantasy president. Iraqis do not love their Iranian neighbors. Sometimes ethnicity trumps sectarian solidarity. But, Iran has shown a willingness to bribe, use force and employ proxies to deadly effect, a combination Iraqis will be hard-pressed to resist. Thanks to Obama’s willingness to walk away from talks and abandon the American relationship with Iraq, Bashar can expect his first Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps reinforcements just after Christmas. Why should he throw in the towel now?
Labels: Bashar al-Assad, Iran, Iraq, Syrian uprising
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:29 AM
1 Comments:
If Iraqiis want to help Iran, and they do, American troops can't force a quarantine mission against Iran's allies on Iraqi's leadership. Sadaam is gone. This is what filled the vacuum. Israel is stuck in the Middle East with these idiots, no reason for America to be.
Where Obama has erred is not in pulling troops out of the godforsaken hills and valleys of Arab religious kleptocracies but in not reposting them to Israel.
That's one country that is sane and in the 21st century.
That's the one country American troops will never be permanently based in force, not by the Republicans and not by the Democrats.
Go figure.
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