‘Limited Engagement’? White House Just Expanded the Syrian Target List
Ahead of the Congressional vote next week on Obama’s supposed ‘limited’ military strike in Syria, the Pentagon has already expanded the list of intended Syrian targets. CBS reported on the broadening of the upcoming U.S. military campaign in Syria just this morning:
The Pentagon has expanded the list of potential targets for a U.S. military strike on Syria, based on intelligence indicating that the Assad regime has moved around equipment used to deploy chemical weapons in anticipation of a potential attack. A Pentagon official insisted to CBS News correspondent David Martin that the scope of the operation has not changed, which President Obama has described as limited and tailored.
Many people are concerned that Obama’s enthusiasm with regard to attacking Syria is a replay of the George W. Bush White House’s WMD lies that got America mired in the most recent Iraq War — a war that former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan later admitted was ‘largely about oil’ and which left over a million Iraqis and thousands of U.S. troops dead. Meaningful evidence that Bashar al-Assad’s regime is responsible for a chemical attack on Syrian civilians has not been produced; instead, evidence has surfaced that the U.S.-backed Syrian rebels committed the attack. Russia actually released a 100-page report back in July blaming the rebels for another chemical attack against Syrians earlier this year. There were no calls for the U.S. to intervene then. That same month, Obama reaffirmed his commitment to the rebels in a phone call to Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah as U.S. arms shipments bound for rebel hands were stalled in Washington.
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