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In reply to the discussion: That was pretty goddamned incoherent, frankly. [View all]brush
(53,332 posts)Don't you mean dick-waving macho "he tried to kill my daddy, Bush/Cheney," crap?
That would be much more accurate a comparison if that was what O is about. But IMHO it's not.
He never wanted to intervene at all, thus the flipping of script by throwing it to Congress, plus the behind the scenes talks with Putin at the 2012 G20 (that info just came to light) and the talks with Putin at the most recent G20.
Kerry's mention of it in his presser was no accident (it just seemed that way to many, even some in the press).
The Russians and Syrians jumped at the chance to negotiate a surrender of the chem weapons.
Another way of putting it is "they blinked."
And not a small part of that blinking was how O handled Bin Laden. You can bet that was in the back of Assad's mind.