Syria’s president hires Iranian snipers to shoot protesters, when will Barack Obama start the bombing?

  When Barack Obama tried to justify his decision to interfere in Libya’s civil war he laid out the Obama Doctrine, which in a nutshell is this:

 when our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act,” said Obama. “That’s what happened in Libya over the course of these last six weeks

left unchecked, we have every reason to believe that Qadhafi would commit atrocities against his people. Many thousands could die. A humanitarian crisis could ensue

  According to the Obama Doctrine the United States should interfere in another nation’s affairs not only when our interests are at stake but also when our values are at stake, and part of those values are ensuring that the leader of another country does not commit atrocities against his or her own people so that a humanitarian crisis can be avoided.

 This is an interesting position for Barack Obama to hold considering when he was running for president he claimed that America should not be the police force of the world, but that is just an observation and not the point of this post for we have a situation in Syria which is growing worse by the day.

   Bashar al-Assad is committing atrocities against his own people–in violation of the Obama Doctrine–and it is now being reported that he has hired Iranian snipers to attack the protesters in his country, and yet Barack Obama remains silent. This calls into question once again what we are doing in Libya. Why does Barack Obama not feel the need to defend American values in Syria when this was his excuse for bombing Libya? According to the Obama Doctrine the United States should already be bombing Syria to prevent a humanitarian crisis, if that were in fact the real reason for his interference in Libya.

  At best Barack Obama’s is naive and his foreign policy is disjointed and uneven, but at worst there is some other reason behind his decision to bomb Libya and I think it is about time for the Congress to hold his feet to the fire on Libya

  It is quite possible that the Obama Doctrine was nothing but political posturing in order for Barack Obama to cover up his subservience to the United Nations. The United States had no business interfering in the Libyan civil war in the first place, but the United Nations told Barack Obama that he must and so he did.

 We can only assume that if the United Nations decides that it is time for the United States to do something about Syria that Barack Obama will feel obligated to do so, whether or not there is a legitimate reason for doing so, but until then Barack Obama will sit around and wait for his marching orders.