As if the U.S. is not involved in enough wars, bombings, killings and interventions in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya and Yemen, Republicans, Democrats and the Pentagon now want to intervene in Syria.
Speaking yesterday on CBS Face the Nation, Senator Lindsey Graham (R SC) said we are getting very close to the time when the United States would attack Syria, and that now is the time to let Assad know that all options are on the table. Graham cited the illegal war in Libya as a basis for the potential war in Syria, saying that Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and Syria's Bashar Assad are indistinguishable and that both wars make sense.
This rhetoric aligns with the Obama Administration's and the Pentagon's implementing their new Mass Atrocity Response Operation (MARO) Project in the name of peace of course.
Sen. Graham: Military intervention in Syria should "be on the table"
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Sunday that itâs time to consider international intervention in Syria to avoid the further slaughter of people there by President Bashar al-Assads forces.
If it made sense to protect the Libyan people against Gadhafi, and it did because they were going to get slaughtered if we hadn't sent NATO in when he was on the outskirts of Benghazi, the question for the world [is], have we gotten to that point in Syria," Graham said on the CBS' "Face the Nation."
"We may not be there yet, but we are getting very close, so if you really care about protecting the Syrian people from slaughter, now is the time to let Assad know that all options are on the table,â said Graham, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Over 1,000 civilians have been killed in recent months in a crackdown against the uprising there, according to human rights groups."
MAPRO Mass Atrocity Prevention and Response Operations
"The Pentagon is honing a strategy for halting genocide and mass atrocities, an effort to make the military faster and more effective if called upon to tackle those non traditional missions. Known inside the Pentagon as MAPRO-- Mass Atrocity Prevention and Response Operations-- the new strategy will tap many of the same skills the military uses for counterinsurgency fights, stability operations and humanitarian and disaster-response missions. The current MAPRO initiative will formalize the Pentagon planning and expand the military's ability to "prevent, mitigate, and, if called upon by the president to stop mass atrocities" said Marine Lt.Col. David Lapan, a Pentagon spokesman.