Obama's Novel Lawyering to Bomb Syria

[unhappycamper]

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Obama-s-Novel-Lawyering-to-by-Robert-Parry-Airstrikes_Assad_Bombing_Iraq-140923-55.html

Obama's Novel Lawyering to Bomb Syria
By Robert Parry
OpEdNews Op Eds 9/23/2014 at 22:34:19

The Obama administration has devised an extraordinary legal justification for carrying out bombing attacks inside Syria: that the United States and its Persian Gulf allies have the right to defend Iraq against the Islamic State because the Syrian government is unable to stop the cross-border terror group.

"The Syrian regime has shown that it cannot and will not confront these safe havens effectively itself," said the U.S. letter delivered by Ambassador Samantha Power to United Nations officials...

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Yet, beyond the danger to world order if such an expansive theory is embraced by the international community (does anyone remember how World War One got started?), there is the hypocrisy of the U.S. government and many of those same Gulf allies arming, training and funding Syrian rebels for the purpose of preventing the Syrian military from controlling its territory and then citing that lack of control as the rationale to ignore Syria's sovereignty.

In other words, the United States, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan and other enemies of Syria covertly backed the rebels inside Syria and watched as many of them -- including thousands of the U.S.-preferred "moderates" -- took their newly acquired military skills to al-Qaeda affiliates and other terrorist organizations. Then, the U.S. and its allies have the audacity to point to the existence of those terror groups inside Syria as a rationale for flying bombing raids into Syria.

[morningfog]

1. It is the same as Yoo legalizing torture for Bush.