President Barack Obama holds a
press conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in
Washington, DC, on April 30, 2013. The President on Tuesday warned of
rushing to judgement on possible use of chemical weapons by Syria.
(Photo by Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)
What will President
Obama do? The news over the weekend that Israel carried out out two airstrikes in Syria over a 48
hour period now has the world now wondering what role the U.S. will play
in that country’s bloody civil war. Diplomatic sources and U.S.
officials tell NBC News that the Obama administration is
fully supportive of the strikes, which Israel says targeted Iranian-made
weapons, potentially Bound for Hezbollah. The Syrian government condemned the air assault, saying it “opened the
door to all possibilities.” The Israeli government did not confirm the
strike, but experts say it was unlikely that it was seeking to
intervene in the Syrian conflict itself. Rather, those same analysts say
it is more likely a campaign to prevent Syria from transferring the
targeted weapons to Hezbollah, one of Israel’s biggest enemies.
However, Israel reportedly sees the growing role of Iran and Hezbollah
in the conflict as a direct threat because Syrian President Bashar
al-Assad cannot refuse Hezbollah’s demands to transfer weapons into
Lebanon. In an interview with Telemundo on Saturday before the
most recent air strike, President Obama said that he believes
the Israelis justifiably have to guard against the transfer of advanced
weaponry to terrorist organizations like Hezbollah” and “Hezollah has
repeatedly said that they would be willing to attack as far as Tel
Aviv.” But regardless of Israel’s reasoning or level of involvement in
the future, the White House will eventually have to decide its own role
in the Syrian crisis. Some lawmakers used their Sunday show appearances
to call for ‘game-changing’ action, but there is and will be
plenty of voices on the other side who don’t cheer the prospect of U.S. involvement in yet
another Middle East war. Now that Syria has reportedly crossed
President Obama’s “red line,” world leaders are watching the Administration’s next move. We’ll discuss the
options and the crisis moving forward when we see you at noon ET on
msnbc.
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