Obama Opts For World War III Against Dempsey's Opposition?!

• Obama Opts For World War III Against Dempsey’s Opposition?! 
  by http://larouchepac.com/ 
  The primary reason why the U.S. has not taken a bigger military role in Syria is because of the steadfast opposition of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, led by its chairman, General Martin Dempsey. Thursday afternoon however, the White House, in the person of Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes, announced that it has concluded that Syria’s Assad government used chemical weapons that accounted for the deaths of 100-150 Syrians. ‘The president has said that the use of chemical weapons would change his calculus, and it has,” Rhodes told reporters yesterday. Therefore, “the president has augmented the provision of non-lethal assistance to the civilian opposition and also authorized the expansion of our assistance to the Supreme Military Council.” Rhodes would not, however, catalogue what kind of military assistance would be sent to the opposition, though this didn’t prevent the marble-less Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), who was notified before the announcement, from announcing that US weapons were headed to the rebels.
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  Lyndon LaRouche, upon being briefed on the reported disagreements among Obama’s national security advisors about increasing US involvement in Syria, said that the issue isn’t arming the rebels, it’s about World War III.  Dempsey and the Joint Chiefs, LaRouche said, understand that it’s about World War III, and therefore they can’t step back from their opposition.
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  Wednesday afternoon, the Associated Press reported that Obama’s top national security advisors met at the White House but they remained split on both arming the rebel groups and on setting up a no-fly zone.  Obama wasn’t there, because he was flying from Massachusetts to Florida, but both Dempsey and Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel were expected to be there. “Despite foreshadowing a possible move toward lethal aid for weeks, officials said some officials at the White House, the Pentagon and in the intelligence community remained hesitant about providing weapons, ammunition or other lethal support to a rebellion increasingly defined by extremists,” reported AP.

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