KJ's Corner

Saving face, or his political ass In August of 2012 President Obama drew a Red Line with the Assad regime in Syria.   Whatever the reason behind it, we may never know.   He obviously wasn’t reading his teleprompter (TOTUS).   Now Obama has painted himself into a corner, and he needs someone to blame.   He needs to save face.   He needs political redemption.   How does President Obama accomplish this? President Obama wants to attack Syria because someone used chemical weapons against Syrians.   Currently, there is much debate about who used these weapons, but no concrete proof.   The administration consistently states that Bashar al-Assad used the weapons against his own people.   This has to be their position so that they can justify attacking a nation in the midst of a civil war.   Other countries and other sources allege that the Syrian rebels used chemical weapons. President Obama wants to “Fire a shot across the bow” of President Assad’s regime.   By definit