Imagine If Obama Is Trolling Assad?

[KittyWampus]

And by extension, Putin?

Watching via surveillance as Assad moves stuff around.

Someone posited this scenario early this week.

[MineralMan]

1. President Obama is exercising caution.

That's a wise thing to do. As he said, it won't matter when any sort of action takes place. The people who were gassed are already dead, and action will not resurrect them. Assad is unlikely to repeat this gassing business at this point, if it was his decision earlier. A bit of time will pass, more opinions will be heard, and more facts will be available.

President Obama often acts wisely. He has done so again.

[shenmue]

2. I think so too

Of course, there are those on DU who think Obama gets a big kick out of bombing babies and he can't wait to start.

Sometimes I really hate being a Democrat.

[MineralMan]

3. I pay no attention to anyone who says they "know" what

will happen. Clearly, they do not. I would not predict anything at this point. I'm following whatever factual information shows up, but making no predictions.

I believe President Obama has made a wise choice in putting a decision off for the moment and asking Congress to discuss it. Again, he often does wise things.

[johnd83]

4. I said that a few days ago

The speeches last week were probably for his consumption, not ours.

[Iggo]

5. Imagine if Obama terribly miscalculated the support he'd get for bombing Syria.

[DevonRex]

6. That is actually not beyond possibility.

It is very useful to know where weapons go when they think they need to protect them.