Posted on 06/15/2013 2:59:30 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
The White House said on Friday that it is not planning to set up a no-fly zone over Syria.
Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes told reporters that it would be dramatically more difficult and costly to set up a no-fly zone over Syria than it was in Libya.
"We feel like the best course of action is to try to strengthen a moderate opposition," Rhodes said.
He said the United States did not want to send U.S. troops - or "boots on the ground" - to Syria, adding that enforcing a no-fly zone over the country could require intense, open-ended U.S. military engagement.
On Thursday, the U.S. government announced that the Syrian army used chemical weapons against rebel forces on multiple occasions, adding that America will increase the “scope and scale” of its assistance to rebels in Syria in response.
“The President has been clear that the use of chemical weapons – or the transfer of chemical weapons to terrorist groups – is a red line for the United States, as there has long been an established norm within the international community against the use of chemical weapons,” Rhodes said.
Russia, however, said on Friday that is not convinced by the evidence which the U.S. provided alleging that the government of Syria’s President Bashar Al-Assad used chemical weapons against rebel forces.
“The Americans tried to present us with information on the use of chemical weapons by the regime, but frankly we thought that it was not convincing,” said presidential aide Yury Ushakov.
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Didn’t I see that enforcing a no fly zone would cost something like 50M a day? McCain is the same guy I watched on CSPAN argue that we can’t afford to hire more border patrol agents.
Exactly.
Thanks Eleutheria5.
U.S. Military Plan to Arm Rebels Includes No-Fly Zone in Syria
Wall Street Journal
Posted on 06/13/2013 2:14:50 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3030985/posts
Obama is a nasty,sneaky weasel, but he’s cowardly in the face of a real threat. When it comes to community organizing in the sense of manipulating the system to soak money out of it for his favored ends, he and his crew are relentless. But, when it comes to Putin or the Chinese, where real blowback is possible, he’s very cautious. Anyone else notice that?
Since every day at the Obama WH is George Costanza ‘Opposite Day’, you can be sure they have something breathtakingly stupid planned.
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