Washington Post goes ballistic over imaginary Scuds

Well, it's not the Scuds that have them in a flap; it's Obama's lack of reaction.

The so-far totally unverified reports about Assad's use of Scud missiles against "his own people" have caused huge umbrage at the WP editorial board.

NATO meanwhile has wasted no time in citing the imaginary Scuds as the reason for delivering Patriot batteries to Turkey, even though that was a decision taken a good month before the Scud story surfaced.

Here is the take that The View From Falling Downs think tank has on the issue, and by now you surely realize that this is a think tank that runs well ahead of the pack.

Those Patriots are not about the Scuds, they're about the impending war on Iran.

Countdown to US invasion of Syria begins

This little nugget at CNN World hints at what the US strategy might be as al Qaeda franchise al Nusra close in on Assad.

The usual unnamed sources in the defense establishment claim that the administration will declare al Nusra a terror organization within the next week. They may want to wait a little longer just to allow our al Qaeda enemy to inflict maximum damage to Syria.

Sooner or later it will become front page news that Assad's WMDs are in, or almost in the hands of terrorists. That will be a grave threat to Israel, to NATO ally Turkey, and to the entire free world. All the major networks will have spiffy new "Operation Syrian Salvation" logos backdropping their 24/7 coverage of US special forces heading in to wrestle control of Assad's chemical weapons from the jihadists.

This coming unexpected turn of events will also benefit Obama on the domestic front. All that fuss about the "fiscal cliff" will be forgotten overnight as the public realizes that the fate of the entire free world depends on what America's brave men and women in uniform can accomplish in the next war that they have so reluctantly been dragged into.

Assad's WMDs stirring again

Not necessarily stirring in their bunkers and warehouses, but stirring in the news headlines.

Here's today's take from the New York Times. Note the vague sourcing of the story. Unnamed officials in the Israeli and US intelligence services. Note the vague generalities about red lines and open-ended threats to do whatever must be done.

This is not a new story. It has reared its head several times in the course of this war. Then it fades away again, the people who decide these sorts of things having determined that the time is not yet right to play the WMD card.

But as al Qaeda gets closer and closer to toppling Assad, and closer and closer to getting their hands on those chemical weapons stockpiles, look for this story to get the full court press. If Assad doesn't use them, unsavory elements among the freedom fighters might. We must act now! Thousands of innocent lives hang in the balance...

The game of denying who the rebels are can only be played for so long. Thus far, when photographs of al Qaeda fighters flying their flag in Syria have emerged, it's been dismissed as regime propaganda or naive rebels not knowing what they're doing. Just having a bit of fun with that black banner, maybe making a few gag souvenir pics for the folks back home in Libya and Iraq.

But sooner or later, probably sooner, thousands, no tens of thousands of lives will hang in the balance, and what if those al Qaeda rebels smuggle those chemical weapons into Iraq and from there in a shipping container right into... Baltimore? Manhattan? Boston?

WE MUST ACT!!!

No time for long-winded debate at the UN or  Congress. Hundreds of thousands of innocent lives hang in the balance!

American boots will be on the ground in Damascus before spring.