[GypsyGoth]

Originally Posted by the truth

In what way? Hes pressurised the Russians to step in and get the weapons off the Syrians. Hes made a stern threat to go to war if all else fails and seems pretty convincing. He has shown more leadership on this than anyone else. Or would you rather he reacted like..that aggressive prank monkey George Warmonger Bush, who attacked Iraq as revenge for 911 which had nothing to do with Iraq? if hed spotted genocide in Syria hed have gotten so mad hed have invaded Canada land

He mentioned there being a red line (I think) that if the Syria's crossed, he would act. He said using chemical weapons was crossing that line.

Now when they were used in that country, he said he was going to fire missiles and teach Assad a lesson, perhaps even do so much damage to his army that the coalition of crazy muslims and normal rebels might get the upper hand in that war (maybe that's what him and his advisers want).

However the crazy muslim part of that coalition is a lot like the one that has been attacking america and caused 911. So getting rid of Assad might let them get into power in a country and allow them to enforce sharia law.

Anyhoo when it came time for Obama to give the word and start the attack, he first lost the UK as a war ally, then it turned out the people in the US were against the idea (I think it's to do with the fatigue from the seemingly endless wars in that part of the world for them), and if it was put to a vote, the republicans, and the members of his own party who disagreed with attacking Syria, would have defeated Obama.

I might add that Obama mentioned he didn't even need approval of his congress, that he could launch an attack regardless. This turned out to be false, he can only do that if the US is under threat. So when this idea that the russian would supervise Syria getting rid of their chemical weapons, Obama jumped on it as if it was his plan all along.

But in reality he couldn't launch the attack he wanted, that is why I say he looked weak to me.

And who knows what Bush would have done in that situation, there would have been different advisers guiding him and thus a different agenda.