Just so Obama can save face...

The images of gassed Syrian children gasping their lives out as they roll on the ground in their final death throes are unquestionably horrific. On the other hand, you can be sure that if Sunni rebel groups affiliated with Al Qaeda achieve military ascendency in Syria, they will commit atrocities equally horrific against the Alawites. No matter which side we support, we will be supporting genocide and terror. And, how can it possibly be beneficial to the United States to aid and abet rebel groups affiliated with Al Qaeda?

Obama made another of his unguarded, utterly stupid statements when he said that Assad would be crossing a red line if he used poison gas. And, now he has to save face. So, he is going to drag the US into the middle of an age-old blood feud between Alawites and Sunnis. The only thing our involvement will accomplish is to exacerbate tensions between the US and all the various parties in the Middle East, since one side will be angered by the US military attacks, while the other side will be angered because the attacks are not intense enough.

How Obama can think that he will promote peace by escalating the level of violence in the Middle East is utterly beyond my understanding.