@JPB,
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If it was a bluff. All of this may have been cooked up at the G-20 meeting last week. I quite honestly don't care if he was caught being flippant or was intentionally throwing out a bone so long as it works.
Who outside of the administration really understand what the administration's strategy is. We do get a *glimpse* of a personal profile on Bashar Assad. Israeli military bombed a weapons depot in the Syrian town of Latakia two years ago. Assad did absolutely nothing. Such is the way of cowards. They will get behind their computers, go before their media, and sound so alarmingly fierce, but in reality.....they're frightened little children of the dark. It's a way out for Assad who does not want to face the might of the US military. If the US does strike Syria, that will weaken his army which might lead to his ouster. This way, if he does as Russia suggested and delivers up his chemicals (all of them) to the UN to be destroyed, he still get to stay around and be grand leader of Syria.
It is also a way out for Obama with the majority of Americans increasingly against any Syria attack.
Assad comes across as gutless, but will sneakily use chemicals and claim to almighty god he did not do so. The man wears two faces and is totally untrustworthy. I believe he will accept Russia and the UN's plan. But if Obama's tough talk to attack Syria worked, then it's a victory for him.
