US President Barack Obama makes the Assad regime for chemical weapons attack responsible – the preparations for a military strike but falter. Washington and London to see now but forced to await the report of the UN inspectors. Citizens and MPs fear a new debacle in Iraq.
This war have not wanted the United States. But the famous “red line” now seems finally exceeded. The Syrian regime is responsible for the horrible poison gas attack last week that U.S. President Barack Obama said publicly for the first time. “And if that is so, international consequences must follow.”
There are strong words, but after the U.S. and Britain have begun in recent days with preparations for a military strike, now they slow their pace.
Obama stressed in his interview on PBS stations, he had not yet made a decision. He also opposed a “direct military involvement” of the U.S. on Syrian civil war. Interference in the balance of power in the country would “not help the situation on the ground.” After the goal of military intervention questioned, he replied that the regime become a “pretty strong signal obtained that it is better not do that again.”
British Prime Minister David Cameron, who previously urged to hurry, now wants to wait until after the report of the UN inspectors, which is probably early next week. Currently, holding several weapons experts in Syria to investigate the allegations.
War in Syria:Russia and China block
London, the United Nations had submitted a draft resolution to achieve a military action against the Assad regime – but the paper already has “no chance” it said in UN circles. China and Russia to block. “All parties should wait for the results to be patient,” was read in the Chinese state newspaper “People’s Daily”.
Syria’s UN Ambassador Bashar Jaafari threw an unexpected Another problem: There is “evidence” to three cases in which the Syrian rebels said to have used chemical weapons. To check this, would extend the work of the UN inspectors.
The U.S. government sees the face of Russian and Chinese blockade of the Security Council “no way forward,” said Marie Harf, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman. Therefore, the United States would continue its consultations elsewhere, to “take appropriate measures” in the coming days.
Fear Iraq debacle inhibits decision
But in the U.S. as in the UK also slows the shadow desIrak-war decisions. Cameron must be at home to answer to critics who remind him of Iraq and his pre-predecessor Tony Blair, who controlled the then U.S. President George W. Bush, the war propaganda.
Even Obama said at PBS, he knew that many Americans “a repeat of Iraq” feared. Therefore, the U.S. Congress hesitates. 116 MPs demanded the U.S. president wrote a letter to obtain their consent before a military strike. Otherwise, it would violate the Constitution, it said in the letter, signed by 98 Republicans and 18 Democrats.
John Boehner, the Republican Speaker of the House, asked in a separate letter to Obama an “unequivocal statement” as a military action in Syria, “U.S. interests true” would. “I fear that such an action the United States could be drawn into a wider direct involvement in the conflict,” even Adam Smith, the top Democrat in the Foreign Affairs Committee said.
On Thursday, the White House wants to teach leading Congress politicians closer. At the same time, it has announced to present new and “indisputable” evidence that the regime is responsible for the use of poison gas.
One of the few who pleaded loudly for use and, even more, a regime change, was the Republican Senator John McCain. “This is the same president who demanded two years ago, that Bashar al-Assad would give up the office,” he said on Fox News. “So where is America’s credibility?”
Others warned to compare the situation in Syria with Iraq in 2003. “The Syrian case concerns the empirical question of whether chemical weapons were used, and an analytical judgment about who used them,” said the intelligence expert Thomas Fingar, the “New York Times”. “This is very different from Iraq.” Fingar should know: As a top employee of the U.S. State Department, he disagreed with the war, Bush’s time line.
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