“The infrastructure that accompanies the president’s travels is beyond our control.”
-- Ben Rhodes, a spokesman for President Obama, explaining to the Washington Post why the cost for first family’s trip to Africa later this month could approach $100 million despite automatic spending reductions.
The only time that the impending involvement of U.S. forces in a genocidal Middle Eastern civil war can be considered good political news is when the alternative story is bad enough.
A few eyebrows are arching in Washington today as the Obama White House makes ready for the next phase in a years-long escalation of U.S. involvement with the effort to topple the Assad regime and bid to install a new government.
After months of downplaying the “red line” on chemical weapons President Obama drew last year, the administration changed course on Thursday and announced a finding that the regime had in fact gassed its own citizens. The consensus was that Obama would likely soon start providing direct military aid to some of the Islamist rebels in Syria.
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4 comments:
thats the government for you. distract from the heat on you. put the attention somewhere else so you can weasle your corrupt bodies out of the spot light. now the media will shift from scandal to war.. so predictable.
And he's probably talking to the other side about how they were able to gas so many at a time...
divert
Of course it's diversion time. The front page of the USA today talks about the fact that he Syrian rebels are predominantly al Qaeda. We are arming and funding al Qaeda. Our current administration should be arrested based on the NDAA signed by Obama 12/31/2011.
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