Obama Snubs the UN

Despite growing worldwide criticism, President Obama refuses to be dissuaded from carrying out his plan to launch a military attack on Syria. At the G-20 summit—where heads of state of the 20 most important industrial and emerging nations, along with the European Union, are meeting—the Nobel Peace laureate found little support for his war plans. From the European Union, only France expressed its intention to take part in direct air attacks. NATO member state Turkey has assembled troops and armor on its border with Syria, and Germany will provide the invaders with military intelligence from its spy ships stationed in the Mediterranean. German “Patriot” missile batteries stationed in Turkey will also provide rear-echelon defense.

When it became apparent in St. Petersburg that Obama would get near zero support to go to war, Samantha Powers, the American ambassador to the U.N., railed in New York that Russia continued to hold the U.N. Security Council hostage and was the guardian angel of a regime responsible for deadly chemical attacks. The United States, she said, is prepared to “go outside the Security Council when it is deadlocked.”

If you listen to the media, you come to the conclusion that it’s not Obama but Vladimir Putin alone that’s the villain. But meanwhile, China, which also has veto power in the Security Council, along with developing countries like Brazil and India also want to see convincing proof from the United States that the Assad regime used poison gas two weeks ago that resulted in the deaths of hundreds. But in St. Petersburg, Obama didn’t produce such evidence— probably because he doesn’t have it. This comes from a now-released report by the National Security Council dated August 30 and distributed by welt.de that said at the outset the U.S. government found it highly probable that the Syrian government had used chemical weapons in the suburbs of Damascus on Aug. 21, 2013. What the reportage from the Axel Springer organization failed to include was a key sentence written by Obama’s man for “strategic communications,” Benjamin Rhodes: “High confidence is the “strongest position that the U.S. Intelligence Community can take short of confirmation.”

That lack of confirmation is having an effect on the U.S. Congress. The Washington Post reported on Friday that a majority of representatives and senators are leaning toward rejecting the request for authority to attack Syria.