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Syria: Al-Thawra newspaper nails Obama’s ‘historic American retreat’

by | 1st, September 2013

SYRIA’S Al-Thawra newspaper says Barack Obama has a “sense of implicit defeat and the disappearances of his allies“.

And then it nails him:

“Whether the Congress lights the red or green light for an aggression, and whether the prospects of war have been enhanced or faded, President Obama has announced yesterday, by prevaricating or hinting, the start of the historic American retreat.”

In other news:

 Why didn’t Obama seek congressional authorization before instituting red line?

Obama was explicit in 2007 that Presidents don’t have the authority to act unilaterally except to stop ‘an actual or imminent threat

Obama To Strike Syria; Seeks Congressional Approval. “Obama says he has the authority to act on his own, but believes it is important for the country to have a debate.” 

Oh dear…



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