The man is a coward. Everyone knows it.
What will happen you ask? You tell me. Let’s do role play. You be Obama, I’ll be Putin.
You (Obama) attacks Syria with missiles that takes out all six airports.
I have ordered in advance my anti missile batteries to counter and have trained Assad’s forces to hit US ships in the Med. Assad does just that, and hits one of our destroyers. The ship is burning. 300 sailors dead.
What do you do, Obama? You order a counter attack against anti missile batteries in Syria? OK...but Putin alleges that you hit a convey of Russian troops there.
I (Putin) counter with an attack on another of your war ships, and I demand that you withdraw from the area.
What do you do, Obama? THat’s right you run...or else it’s WWIII.
Without anyone in the press asking what the specific objectives are of the strike, then he doesnt have to worry about “failing” Because without goals you can never fail. Vagueness is a powerful weapon.
Pearl Harbor was a “Limited Strike”.
How did that work out for Japan?
Not to worry, the MSM will hail it at the most spectacular and resounding foreign policy act of the century for their god..............
The stated purpose is to keep Assad from gassing his people again. But if the U.S. launches a limited strike then how can that do anything but force Assad to gas more people just to show he isn't cowed by the U.S.? I just don't see any way that the kind of half-assed missile attach is going to accomplish anything or prevent any future attacks.
Hypothetical scenario:
Obama lobs a few missiles, goes on TV, crows about it, declares victory and gets out.
Almost as if to flip him the bird, Assad (or rebels wanting him to be blamed for this) go and gas another town.
THEN what happens???
It’s not “if”, it’s “when”
It is supposed to fail. They’ve already said that.
It’s postmodern war. There are no objectives.