Syria Exposes Hypocrisy in Washington
A situation similar to Iraq in 2003 is playing out in Syria today, but with a radically different reaction from the White House.
Early on in the Arab Spring, the Obama administration portrayed Syria’s Bashar Assad and his wife Asma as a pair of progressives struggling to bring Syria into the 21st century. But now that Assad has been accused of using chemical weapons, the president and his team are desperately looking for a way to act, even without UN or Congressional approval. This is much more than a simple change in policy. The carnage in Syria is exposing the utter incompetence and blatant hypocrisy that exists in Washington and the news media’s shameless duplicity when it comes to its coverage of America’s foreign policy.
