Obama And Syria

There are two motives, in my opinion, for Obama to press on for bombing attacks on Syria in the face of public opinion. Even those less-informed citizens, a large constituency in the United States, are predominantly against interfering in the Syrian civil war. As with his predecessor Bush, it is about Obama's concept of himself and his legacy.

Obama With a Dictator Friend

1. Obama knows his domestic policies have hit the buffers. Even his flagship platform, health insurance, is going, and will go, nowhere as a result of the US political gridlock and obscurantist resistance by the Republican party. This and continued economic meltdown in America make Obama look nothing short of a failure and, importantly, weak. What better to give him a false aura and pretense of strength than a useless and brutal military adventure? He also must suspect, despite rose-tinted reports from the Pentagon, that Afghanistan will collapse into Taliban control once NATO is gone. In other words another abject failure just around the corner.

2. Obama, again like his predecessor, dances to the AIPAC tune. As ever, the Tel Aviv tail is wagging the Washington dog. A weak Syria, not to say a destroyed one (Iraq-style) is what Tel Aviv wants and as far as Obama is concerned they will have. 

Syria was a prosperous, beautiful country, dictatorship or not. The West, at the behest of Israel, have destroyed that. Now the Western politicians ask for 'humanitarian aid' for the millions of victims.