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Thread #148447   Message #3828014
Posted By: beardedbruce
22-Dec-16 - 10:08 AM
Thread Name: BS: Syria: the new nightmare?
Subject: RE: BS: Syria: the new nightmare?
Shame on you, bobad. You can't say such things about the US President ( unless he is a Republican).

" The UN Security Council could have stopped the bloodshed, but it would not, because the warmongering Russian veto-holders wouldn't let it. The UN General Assembly could have overridden the Security Council by invoking the 1950 "Uniting for Peace" Resolution 377A, but it would not do so, on account of excuses likely as numerous as the General Assembly's 193 member states.

United States President Barack Obama could have made some use of himself on behalf of the Syrian people, but he chose not to. An American-led no-fly zone over Syria, enforced by the 28-member NATO alliance, is not some small thing that even Vladimir Putin could have ignored. Obama could have stood up to Iran, but he didn't because he didn't want to. What he wanted instead was his legacy nuclear-deal rapprochement with the ayatollahs in Tehran, a cascading failure that may not survive even the tyrant-admiring president-elect, Donald Trump. The main reason all those Syrians had to die was that Obama didn't want to do anything to hurt the ayatollahs' feelings.

It's painful, facing up to the reality that the most stylish and charming American president since John F. Kennedy, the Chicago boy with such gifts of soaring oratory, the president who spent eight years dancing on the Ellen Degeneres Show and chumming around with Hollywood's hottest stars, might have spent most of his time in the Oval Office falling-down drunk on the elixir of his own glamorous, impeccable image."