WarSclerotic

Paths to War, Then and Now, Haunt Obama
By PETER BAKERSEPT. 13, 2014 Via NYT

(Only one paragraph in this article was worth reading. I posted it below. You can follow the link if you wish to read the complete text. I call this excerpt…Yet Another Declaration of War.-LS)

He made clear the intricacy of the situation, though, as he contemplated the possibility that Mr. Assad might order his forces to fire at American planes entering Syrian airspace. If he dared to do that, Mr. Obama said he would order American forces to wipe out Syria’s air defense system, which he noted would be easier than striking ISIS because its locations are better known. He went on to say that such an action by Mr. Assad would lead to his overthrow, according to one account.

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