# Can anyone defend the Admin Syria drive?

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**Created:** [September 9, 2013, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-defend-the-admin-syria-drive/668417 "2013-09-09T16:04:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Terr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Terr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terr)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-defend-the-admin-syria-drive/668417/1 "2013-09-09T16:04:07Z")

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Especially in the light of latest Kerry’s comments. The utter incoherence of the spokesmen that Obama sends out is astounding.

> **[John Kerry gives Syria week to hand over chemical weapons or face attack](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/09/us-syria-chemical-weapons-attack-john-kerry)**
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> US secretary of state tells London press conference with William Hague that US intelligence blames Assad regime for gas attack

Kerry said the Americans were planning an “unbelievably small” attack on Syria. “We will be able to hold Bashar al-Assad accountable without engaging in troops on the ground or any other prolonged kind of effort in a very limited, very targeted, short-term effort that degrades his capacity to deliver chemical weapons without assuming responsibility for Syria’s civil war. That is exactly what we are talking about doing – **unbelievably small, limited kind of effort**.”

I think Kerry should be fired for incompetence.

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