Justify Syria

Bears has always lived in the past... Much easier to criticize the previous guy than it is to realize you voted for an incompetent fool and his parrot.

Criticize Bush and Cheney if you must, but they had the balls to make the tough calls without taking an opinion poll...

Hee hee Thanks for the laugh. Perhaps they should have made some decisions based on sound advice and logic as opposed to using their 'balls'. Perhaps 5,000 troops would not be dead.
 
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A new poll has found a majority of Americans believe that President Barack Obama's handling of foreign policy is worse than or no better than President George W. Bush.
 
"A Long Path Led to Offer on Chemical Arms
U.S. and Russia Had Discussed Idea, But Moscow Proposal Came as a Surprise"

It seems that this idea has been in the works for a year. Kerry stepped out on limb and dumped it in London.

Wall Street Journal:

"The idea that has upended President Barack Obama's push for a military attack on Syria—tossed out as an aside by his secretary of state at a news conference—had been discussed with Russia over the past year and more frequently in recent weeks, according to a U.S. account of the discussions."

..."Though the development came as a surprise, one year ago Mr. Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin met at a Group of 20 summit in Mexico and talked about the idea of Syria turning over its chemical weapons supply to international control, an administration official said. The two leaders couldn't strike a deal.

Over the past year, Obama administration officials and their Russian counterparts have discussed ways to neutralize Syria's chemical weapons.

In April, Mr. Kerry made his first trip to Moscow as secretary of state and took part in a dinner with his Russian counterpart, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, that lasted until 2:30 a.m. They discussed a model for eliminating Syria's chemical weapons, much as Libya agreed to give up its nuclear program a decade ago, the administration official said."

..."And after a few hours, so did Mr. Obama. "We were struck by the seriousness of the [Russian] statement, which went farther than we anticipated," the senior administration official said.

Mr. Kerry spoke with National Security Adviser Susan Rice. The two agreed the proposal to remove chemical weapons from the Assad regime's control would be difficult to pull off but was a "positive step" and needed to be pursued, the administration official said.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324094704579067574165010740.html
 

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