# Can anyone defend the Admin Syria drive?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**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:** ![NotfooledbyW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f475e1/32.png) [@NotfooledbyW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotfooledbyW)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2013, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-defend-the-admin-syria-drive/668417/693 "2013-09-29T20:00:43Z")

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> [@Terr](#):
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> Every time I think there are limits to the apologists for the Obama administration, I am proven wrong.
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> You’re serious, aren’t you? Please explain how an “unbelievably small” - hell, practically nonexistent - strike will do anything about Assad’s use or non-use of chemical weapons?

> [@Obama passing the ball to Congress for now - predictions?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-passing-the-ball-to-congress-for-now-predictions/667710/383):
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> Finally, a workable solution.
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> Assad gives up his chemical weapons and signs the treaty. Ok, WMD threat gone, no need for the US to freak.
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> The civil war isn’t most other parties’ business and can’t be fixed from the outside anyway, so you try not to blow up your neighbors and we’ll try to stay out.
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> Obama looks like The Man for scoring a diplomatic victory. Putin and Ban Ki Moon look indispensable. The world does not become less stable. Possibly, Assad can make a friend now that he’s shedding his rogue status.
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> Win-win-win.

> [@Obama passing the ball to Congress for now - predictions?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-passing-the-ball-to-congress-for-now-predictions/667710/384):
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> If it happens, it will happen in years from now.  
> Since the negotiations about the control over the chemical weapons will drag on way longer than the rest of Obama’s presidency, Obama will look like a weak fool who was outplayed.

So Terr, how’s your fogged up crystal ball lookin’ these days? Have you thrown a brick at it?

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