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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Bashar Al Assad Is Laying a Deadly Ambush for Obama in Syria
2014-08-28
[NEWREPUBLIC] President Barack Obama
Ready to Rule from Day One...
's decision to authorize aerial surveillance of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) positions in Syria suggests that Arclight airstrikes employing manned and unmanned aircraft may not be far behind. All of this is right and proper. Yet danger lurks.
Ooooh! Danger! At the window!
The head of Syria's preeminent crime family--President Bashar Al Assad--waits, crocodile-like, for the American angler to tumble out of the boat. For Assad, opportunity knocks. If he handles matters correctly he can, with an assist from American inaction, return to polite society while others do the anti-ISIS heavy lifting for him.
Posted by:Fred

#6  Does he blame Bush and the Juice?
Posted by: AlanC   2014-08-28 08:43  

#5  "it's more like shooting fish in a barrel"

And the fish brought their own barrel

(or 'Red Line', or whatever it's called these days)
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2014-08-28 08:43  

#4  Besides, it wouldn't be an "ambush", it's more like shooting fish in a barrel.
Posted by: Bobby   2014-08-28 08:06  

#3  Frederic C. Hof is a Resident Senior Fellow in the Atlantic Council's Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East. He worked on Syria-related issues in the State Department from 2009 through 2012.

RH Fellow and Foggy Bottom dipwad 2009-2012 eh? The author is his own bloody ambush.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-08-28 03:12  

#2  So, Syrian Alawites going to survive = deadly ambush?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2014-08-28 02:59  

#1  putin must have taught him these chess moves.
Posted by: Paul D   2014-08-28 02:10  

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