Please Do What You Can Now to Halt this Rush to War

[Chippiewill]

US Secretary of State John Kerry has said Syrian government forces killed 1,429 people in a chemical weapons attack near Damascus last week.

Mr Kerry said the dead included 426 children, and described the attack as an "inconceivable horror".

Shortly afterwards, President Barack Obama said the Syrian chemical attack threatened US national security interests.

He said the US was considering a "limited narrow act".

Unsatisfied with the current public opinion on Syria Obama has moved to get sympathy and create wild accusations of it somehow threatening national security to justify military action. Of course it's pretty plain to 90% of people that a gas attack in syria in no way affects the safety of those residing in the US and it's pretty ridiculous when you consider DPRK who actually did threaten the US earlier this year and no action was taken by Obama then.

[Eoin247]

Well it's easy to see why American action is inevitable. Also Israel probably has a lot to do with why the US is interested in this. Assad has allowed Syria to be a conduit for Iran to supply Hezzbollah with weapons, if Assad is no longer in power, that conduit is no longer in operation.
The US also know that once Assad is removed that the Jihadis will move on to Lebanon and try and impose their band of crazy there as well, engaging Hezbollah and the Christian militias with the aim of making Lebanon a Sunni controlled state. The House of saud, the ones paying for all the Jihadi's weapons and food, aren't big fans of the current setup in Lebanon.

All of this benefits Israel in several ways, Hezbollah are weakened and distracted, Hamas lose two of their major backers (Hezbollah and Syria) and Iran is isolated in a sea of Sunni controlled states.

Not to mention that Obama has backed himself into a corner with drawing that line on chemical weapons a while back.