Will Obama Bomb Syria?

Originally posted by airforce:
If he's looking for an excuse to start another war, he has one now. The mob then apparently attacked the residence of the U.S. ambassador.

That sure was "smart diplomacy," sending an ambassador back to Syria. :rolleyes:

Considering how unpopular and unproductive the bombing campaign in Libya is turning out to be, I doubt President Obama is going to use this as an excuse to start bombing, hoping to distract us yet again from our financial woes. But, you never know. A desperate man does desperate things.

Onward and upward,
airforce

Originally posted by Sniper_762X51:
What I want to know is where were the Marines while the Embassy was being attacked.

The United States on Monday formally protested an attack on the U.S. embassy and the American ambassador’s residence in Syria and said it will seek compensation for damage caused when a mob of what it described as about 300 “thugs” breached the wall of the embassy compound before being dispersed by Marine guards.

The State Department condemned the assaults and said it planned to summon a senior Syrian diplomat to register its complaints in person. Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland demanded that Syria uphold international treaty obligations to protect foreign diplomatic missions. She said the Syrian government failed to provide adequate protection for the facilities.

“We consider that the Syrian government has not lived up to its obligations ... to protect diplomatic facilities and it is absolutely outrageous,” she told reporters.

She said the mob had not breached the chancery building but had gotten onto its roof, spray painted graffiti, and broke windows and some security cameras. In addition, she said protesters lobbed fruits and vegetables at the compound.

Nuland said that Syrian security forces who are supposed to guard the mission were slow to respond to the attack by supporters of President Bashar Assad, which she said was incited by a television station that is heavily influenced by Syrian authorities.

There were no injuries reported to embassy personnel, who are all accounted for, officials said....