every month, the assad government, using regular old conventional weapons. so it s not entirely clear to me that this would trigger an automatic response. there is no real obama doctrine here except for passivity, i m afraid to say. helene, if we do get assad out, the united states, other allies, what then? well, that s the big that s part of the reason why the obama administration has done in the views of many so little toward getting president assad out, and that s because they are just really afraid. syria looks syria would be so much worse. you saw the break-up of iraq after the united states invasion in 2003. syria would be that times 10. and there s a lot of worry about what are you going to do with that? you have a worry about the slaughter of the allies in the mountains. you have to worry about just this whole break-up and who would govern this region that is so, so this country that is so critical for the whole region. but i do think, though, that chemical weapons wo
after all, they have been killing thousands of people every month, the assad government, using regular old conventional weapons. so it s not entirely clear to me that this would trigger an automatic response. there is no real obama doctrine here except for passivity, i m afraid to say. helene, if we do get assad out, the united states, other allies, what then? well, that s the big that s part of the reason why the obama administration has done in the views of many so little toward getting president assad out, and that s because they are just really afraid. syria looks syria would be so much worse. you saw the break-up of iraq after the united states invasion in 2003. syria would be that times 10. and there s a lot of worry about what are you going to do with that? you have a worry about the slaughter of the allies in the mountains. you have to worry about just this whole break-up and who would govern this region that is so, so this country that is so critical for the whole re