Goodbye, Sheep’s Clothing: Obama ‘Lost All Sense of Shame’ in Fueling Syrian War

Tuesday, December 13, 2016
By Paul Martin

SputnikNews.com
13.12.2016

Last week, outgoing US President Barack Obama signed an order waiving restrictions on the provision of defense articles and other support to US-allied militants in Syria. Political observer Maxim Sokolov suggests the president’s move is a sign that he has lost any remaining sense of shame in Washington’s effort to pour kerosene on the Syrian fire.

Last week, President Obama made a last ditch effort to inject more arms into Syria, waiving prohibitions on the supply of arms to insurgents operating in the country. The move has been intensely criticized, with multiple observers emphasizing that the measure’s only impact will be to prolong the war, at the cost of innocent lives.

But according to RIA Novosti political observer Maxim Sokolov, it is the president’s apparent state of mind, rather than the decision itself, that carries the most significance.

Seven years ago this week, on December 10, 2009, Obama, elected just ten months earlier, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”

Seven years later, the outgoing two-term president, who is set to leave office in a little over a month, signed off on an order to officially waive restrictions on the provision of US military equipment to “foreign forces, irregular forces, groups, or individuals…engaged in supporting or facilitating ongoing US military operations to counter terrorism in Syria.”

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