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Gen. McCaffrey Blasts Obama Admin On Syria

‘This is some of the most confused muddled political thinking we have seen in 25 years’



BY: Washington Free Beacon Staff
August 29, 2013 10:06 am

Ret. Gen. Barry McCaffrey appeared on The Daily Rundown Thursday and expressed his displeasure with the Obama administration’s lack of strategy in dealing with the ongoing Syrian crisis:
CHUCK TODD: General, I want to bring you in, by outlining how minimal it’s going to be, that it’s a shot across the bow, essentially, you know, don’t do this again, Bashar al Assad. Does that make the idea of a military strike seem less useful because civilians could get killed and it wasn’t designed to do anything other than be a shot across the bow?
GENERAL BARRY MCCAFFREY: This is some of the most confused muddled political thinking we have seen in 25 years. We told Assad we’re not going after you, we’re not going to try and affect the outcome of the war. We will not go after your chemical weapon storage sites. And we think this limited strike will send a message to you. What happens when he escalates? What happens when he detonates chemical weapons during the strike and says it was caused by the U.S. tomahawk missiles? What happens when he uses chemicals three days later on the civilian population? We are not thinking clearly about a political objective and the military measures required to achieve that objective.


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