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Let's think about this plan for a second.
Is Putin delaying Obama's strike and Congressional votes to drag the timeline out for Syria or are they sincere in their effort to help?
If they're sincere, what benefit will Russia gain other than keeping Assad in power?
How can the international community get to the chemical weapons - do they call a timeout, go in and grab them and transport them away? The logistics of doing something like this near impossible.
My view is that this is a delay tactic - so lets just say Obama and team don't delay and don't take Putin's bait. They push for a vote and lose. Can Obama now still go ahead and launch missiles after Congress says "no" AND now leaving a non-military action on the table unused? That's political suicide domestically and internationally.
Let's say both houses of Congress say "yes" to military action. Obama now has carte blanche to go forward and can use that as leverage with Russia and Assad to negotiate and verify terms of chem weapons being secured and an end to the civil war. But that's looking very bad right now.
Politically, Putin's plan literally throws a monkey wrench in the "go to war timeline". What he's trying to do is he's trying to delay the Obama administration's plans. What I'm afraid of is he's playing our president for a sucker. Given the feasibility of such actions as being remote at best, he's playing a delay game that Obama, now that he's bitten the bait, will have a hard time giving up.
Is Putin delaying Obama's strike and Congressional votes to drag the timeline out for Syria or are they sincere in their effort to help?
If they're sincere, what benefit will Russia gain other than keeping Assad in power?
How can the international community get to the chemical weapons - do they call a timeout, go in and grab them and transport them away? The logistics of doing something like this near impossible.
My view is that this is a delay tactic - so lets just say Obama and team don't delay and don't take Putin's bait. They push for a vote and lose. Can Obama now still go ahead and launch missiles after Congress says "no" AND now leaving a non-military action on the table unused? That's political suicide domestically and internationally.
Let's say both houses of Congress say "yes" to military action. Obama now has carte blanche to go forward and can use that as leverage with Russia and Assad to negotiate and verify terms of chem weapons being secured and an end to the civil war. But that's looking very bad right now.
Politically, Putin's plan literally throws a monkey wrench in the "go to war timeline". What he's trying to do is he's trying to delay the Obama administration's plans. What I'm afraid of is he's playing our president for a sucker. Given the feasibility of such actions as being remote at best, he's playing a delay game that Obama, now that he's bitten the bait, will have a hard time giving up.