Did Barack
Obama really "chicken out" when it came to enforcing his
"red line" against Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad after a
2013 sarin attack, as US neocons insist? According to investigative
reporter Robert Parry, the US President had plausible reasons to step
aside.
Washington's
foreign policy establishment, dominated by neocons, has never missed
a chance to lambast US President Barack Obama for not enforcing his
"red line" against Bashar al-Assad back in 2013.
[...]
To
illustrate the point, Parry quotes the latest article of Jeffrey
Goldberg written for The Atlantic.
"Friday,
August 30, 2013, the day the feckless Barack Obama brought to a
premature end America's reign as the world's sole indispensable
superpower," Goldberg remarks, referring to the events which
followed the August 21 deadly sarin attack in the Damascus suburbs in
2013.
What has
been remaining largely unnoticed for years is that fact that the "US
intelligence was unsure whether Assad was responsible for the
attack," Parry stresses.
It obviously
gave Barack Obama pause for thought.
[...]
While US
warmongering neocons leaped to a conclusion that it was Bashar
al-Assad's military forces that launched sarin attacks against Syrian
civilians, American intelligence professionals had serious doubts
about Assad's alleged guilt.
Indeed, in
his analysis for London Review of Books published in 2014,
Pulitzer-prize winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh shed
light on the tragic events revealing that intelligence officials had
traced the attack to Islamists and the Turkish secret service.
"The
joint chiefs also knew that the Obama administration's public claims
that only the Syrian army had access to sarin were wrong. The
American and British intelligence communities had been aware since
the spring of 2013 that some rebel units in Syria were developing
chemical weapons," Hersh underscored.
Remarkably,
on December 14, 2015 Eren Erdem, a member of Turkey's main
opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), told RT that there was
ample evidence that chemical weapons materials for the production of
sarin gas had been delivered to Daesh in Syria via Turkey in 2013. He
also claimed that the Turkish leadership was aware of these supplies.
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