After the 10-7 committee vote set
the stage for a tight vote in the Senate about the proposed Syrian War, the
issue may end up entirely adverse because of increasing uncertainty among
members of the House of Representatives.
It’s incredible for the House to
already be there, as a large number of Congressmen have been hedging their
bets, with more than 150 coming out as “undecided” and saying they intended to
wait until the debate.
With both the Republican and
Democratic leadership in the House on board for war, the defeat of the
resolution would be a decisive rebuke, driven in no small part by public
opinion polls that have repeatedly shown massive majorities of the American
public against the conflict.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi
(D – CA), on the pro-war side, has conceded that she doesn’t know if she can
bring in a majority of Democrats on her side. That’s probably putting it
mildly, with huge “no” and huge “undecided” contingents making even a close
split probably unlikely.
The momentum in the House is clearly
against this war, with the public opposed and an election next year, it’s hard
to envision any major shift.
A historic defeat for the
administration’s war plan, it sets the stage for Secretary of State John
Kerry’s repeated claims that President Barack Obama could attack after losing
the vote to be put to the test.
Officials have so far refused to
discuss that prospect too deeply, insisting they are “confident” in winning the
vote, but now that it seems clear they’ll lose, that confidence seems as
ill-placed as their confidence in the rest of the case for war.
The call for military action against
Syria intensified after foreign-backed opposition forces accused the Syrian
government of launching a chemical attack on militant strongholds in the
suburbs of Damascus on August 21.
Damascus has vehemently denied the
accusations, saying the chemical attack was carried out by the militants
themselves as a false flag operation.
Syria has been gripped by deadly
unrest since 2011. According to reports, the Western powers and their regional
allies -- especially Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey -- are supporting the
militants operating inside Syria.
According to the United Nations,
more than 100,000 people have been killed and a total of 7.8 million of others
displaced due to the violence.
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