U.S. Secretary Of State John Kerry Wants To Bomb Syria

Photo: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. Reuters

Pentagon Shoots Down Kerry’s Syria Airstrike Plan -- Bloomberg

Twenty years ago, in a debate over the war in Bosnia, Madeleine Albright, then the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, issued a challenge to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Colin Powell. Albright wanted the U.S. to confront an aggressive Serbia; Powell and the Pentagon were hesitant. Albright grew frustrated: “What’s the point of having this superb military that you’re always talking about if we can’t use it?” Albright asked. Powell later said that he thought Albright was going to give him an aneurysm.

Flash-forward to this past Wednesday. At a principals meeting in the White House situation room, Secretary of State John Kerry began arguing, vociferously, for immediate U.S. airstrikes against airfields under the control of Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian regime -- specifically, those fields it has used to launch chemical weapons raids against rebel forces.

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Update #1: John Kerry Has Been Pushing For Air Strikes In Syria -- Business Insider
Update #2: Kerry Wanted to Bomb Syria -- Yahoo News/National Journal

My Comment: If true .... this gives an interesting insight on how President Obama's foreign policy decision making process functions. And while much of the main stream media is ignoring this news story .... thankfully .... Bloomberg/National Journal/Business Insider have not. As to what is my take .... I am glad that General Dempsey did not knuckle under but instead point out the logistics and consequences of initiating such an action. But talk as much as he wants, the final decision will come from President Obama, and I suspect that he is now under a lot of pressure from people like John Kerry/John McCain/etc. to escalate the war in Syria.