via FoxNews.
US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel has said that President Obama has asked the military to "prepare options for all contingencies" as the crisis in Syria deepens following reports of a chemical weapons attack by that country's government earlier this week.I'm ready for the tin foil hat allegations...but I'll put it out there anyway...Is Syria just what the Pentagon desperately desires?
Speaking in Malaysia Sunday, where he was starting a planned one-week tour of Asia, Hagel said that the administration was still weighing whether or not to use military force against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Among the factors being discussed, Hagel said, were an intelligence assessment of the attack as well as possible international support for a military operation and what he described as legal issues.
"President Obama has asked the Defense Department to prepare options for all contingencies. We have done that and we are prepared to exercise whatever option -- if he decides to employ one of those options,'' Hagel said.
* The President has sinking poll numbers...so does the Pentagon. They both need a boost in "patriotic" feelings.
* Sequester is hitting hard, and supplementals are a way that the Pentagon slid new spending into previous budgets. This could be just the ticket to prevent painful choices...at least for the near term.
* Its politically correct in the circles of the liberal elite to engage in warfare for purely humanitarian reasons. Whether there are clear policy objectives and an exit strategy be damned. We must do it for the children.
This is the wrong war for the wrong reasons and we're seeing something new here. Make no mistake about it. This is not a union of Tea Partiers and Liberal Democrats.
This is a union of Neo-Cons and Liberal Elite Democrats (note, Neo-Cons never went away they live happily in the form of McCain and the idiot from S. Carolina).
I never hope that a military mission fails, but I hope both these groups burn in hell.
UPDATE: Catching a few minutes of the Morning Joe Television Show and the talking heads are all parroting the phrase "we must do something". I don't know when that became the catchphrase for Washington but we heard the same for the passage of bills that the American people didn't want and now for action in a place where the American people don't want to become involved (only 25% of the American people want to become involved...only the liberal elite & neo-cons want action).
