US ready for action columnists think

Some US columnists anticipate a military intvervention on the deteriorating situation in Syria. Foreign Policy, a political review magazine, says the Obama administration is now evaluating how to respond to Assad regime in Syria after consistent reports confirming the most recent deaths were caused by chemical weapons on civilians kept coming in. It is also underlined in an article appeared on the political magazine that President Obama has already deployed US war ships in the Mediterranean Sea, close enough to Syria to strike Assad with long range missiles, adding that some senior officials from US administration are ready to bring Syria into UN  agenda. Another article by Michael Crowley on TIME magazine says that Bashar Assad might have interpreted President Obama’s redlines.

“Bashar Assad may finally have gone too far. In the wake of the Syrian dictator’s suspected nerve-gas attack last week, escalating rhetoric from Washington, Europe and Israel suggests a growing consensus for a military strike in response. But given Barack Obama’s well-known aversion to becoming entangled in that country’s savage civil war, and a growing belief that a stalemate might best serve U.S. interests anyway, any attack on Syria is unlikely to signal the start of a major American intervention there. Instead, it would likely be in the service of a pair of abstract—but very important—principles” Michael Crowley said in the article.

Michael Crowley explains those principles on TIME: “The first principle is American credibility. It was almost one year ago that Obama declared the use or movement of chemical weapons in Syria a “red line” that would force him to rethink his “calculus” about that country’s conflict. When regime forces went ahead and launched chemical attacks anyway, the White House—after months of delay—announced in June that the U.S. would increase the “scale and scope” of its support for the Syrian rebels. But the move seemed halfhearted at best, reflecting Obama’s fear of being dragged into a messy sectarian conflict. 

Meanwhile, Will Englund of Washington Post suggested in an article that Turkey, Britain and France would support Obama administration in case of a military intervention in Syria without waiting for a UN approval. Quoting Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as stating that a Western military intervention in Syria would cause more problems and more bloodshed similar to ones seen in Iraq and Libya, Englund said Russia follows an unchangable foreign policy after Putin came into power in 2000.