War Looms For Obama In Iran, Syria, And North Korea -- Leslie Gelb, Daily Beast
Military confrontations loom for Obama in Iran, Syria, and North Korea. And he can’t head them off with the usual duet of threats and talks, writes Leslie H. Gelb.
President Obama is being pushed and pulled into three conflicts–Iran, Syria, and North Korea–where the respective endgames could be either just more inconclusive blather or actual military confrontation. Events are being driven mainly by three bad guys. Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei, intolerably, is trying to keep open the option to build nuclear weapons. Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, intolerably, is killing rebels to keep power. North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un, unacceptably, is trying to have his nuclear cake and eat American food too. Slowly but inexorably, all three situations are becoming testier and riskier with little sign of being saved by warnings or compromise.
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My Comment: I personally doubt that we will find ourselves in a shooting war with any of these three countries this year. But .... if we are to be dragged into a conflict .... it will be to defend Israel, or to respond to a major terrorist attack on U.S. soil.
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