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The joint chiefs also knew that the Obama administration’s public claims that only the Syrian army had access to sarin were wrong. ‘We knew there were some in the Turkish government,’ a former senior US intelligence official, who has access to current intelligence, told me, ‘who believed they could get Assad’s nuts in a vice by dabbling with a sarin attack inside Syria – and forcing Obama to make good on his red line threat.’ Prime Minister Recep Erdoğan was known to be supporting the al-Nusra Front, a jihadist faction among the rebel opposition, as well as other Islamist rebel groups. As a consequence the American officers delivered a last-minute caution to the president, which, in their view, eventually led to his cancelling the attack.įor months there had been acute concern among senior military leaders and the intelligence community about the role in the war of Syria’s neighbours, especially Turkey. The British report heightened doubts inside the Pentagon the joint chiefs were already preparing to warn Obama that his plans for a far-reaching bomb and missile attack on Syria’s infrastructure could lead to a wider war in the Middle East. The message that the case against Syria wouldn’t hold up was quickly relayed to the US joint chiefs of staff. British intelligence had obtained a sample of the sarin used in the 21 August attack and analysis demonstrated that the gas used didn’t match the batches known to exist in the Syrian army’s chemical weapons arsenal. Obama’s change of mind had its origins at Porton Down, the defence laboratory in Wiltshire. Why did Obama delay and then relent on Syria when he was not shy about rushing into Libya? The answer lies in a clash between those in the administration who were committed to enforcing the red line, and military leaders who thought that going to war was both unjustified and potentially disastrous. The strike was postponed as Congress prepared for hearings, and subsequently cancelled when Obama accepted Assad’s offer to relinquish his chemical arsenal in a deal brokered by Russia. * Then with less than two days to go before the planned strike, he announced that he would seek congressional approval for the intervention. Last August, after the sarin attack on the Damascus suburb of Ghouta, he was ready to launch an allied air strike, this time to punish the Syrian government for allegedly crossing the ‘red line’ he had set in 2012 on the use of chemical weapons. FYI, I own a MWS, OBR, REPR, NM M1A, and FAL.I n 2011 Barack Obama led an allied military intervention in Libya without consulting the US Congress. The REPR is novel with the side charging handle, but I do not feel that the piston adds anything and I have a hard time justifying the cost in retrospect. The SR25-EMC is excellent, but expensive at more than $4K. Of the ones that I listed, the most practical is probably the MWS, SCAR, or OBR. All of these are also much easier and less expensive to maintain over the long run than the M14/M1A. A DSA FAL is more reliable and durable, but a little less accurate. Thanks for the input.The MWS, OBR, SCAR, REPR, N6 and SR25-EMC are all just as reliable and accurate. Would a Noveske N6, LMT MWS, or some other AR10 be more reliable as a battle rifle than a good M14? 308 battle rifle as well as the precision rig. Perhaps I am going about this the wrong way, so please let me ask:Īre any of the AR10s out there as reliable as a quality M14 for a battle rifle? I would like an N6 as a precision rig out to 800 yds but I was thinking I should have a.