History Will Be Rough: MSNBC’s Morning Joe Rips Obama Administration Over Syrian Inaction
In the last week two things were clear, Syria still had chemical weapons and the Obama White House lied to us (again). The recent chemical weapons attack on the town in Khan Shaykhun in the Idlib Province of Syria undercut the Obama administration’s 2014 declaration that "100 percent" of the nation’s stockpile had been removed and destroyed. Yet, we now know that former Obama officials knew that this wasn’t the case, but decided to go forward with it anyway to avoid military action. In 2013, a sarin gas attack occurred in Ghouta, killing hundreds, possibly over a thousand by some estimates, which crossed the red line that the Obama White House set in Syria.
After President Trump launched a massive missile strike against the airbase that reportedly carried out the attack on Khan Shaykun, you saw scores of Obama officials actually giving Trump their sign of approval, including former Secretary of State John Kerry and Hillary Clinton, something that The Council on Foreign Relations’ Richard Haas noted was interesting.
He was on MSNBC’s Morning Joe yesterday, where the panel took the Obama administration to the woodshed over their inaction, with Haas adding that this dithering would be a defining moment of Obama’s legacy. Joe Scarborough asked why there was such an outpouring of approval from former members of the Obama administration, likening it to disloyalty to Barack Obama.
Haas added that there was frustration within the administration, adding that it was stricken with “paralysis by analysis.” ....
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2017/04/11/history-will-be-rough-msnbcs-morning-joe-takes-obama-administration-to-the-wood-n2311522