The New York Times and
CNN and the rest of the liberal press, as usual, are either too enthralled in
their own anti-Trump pro-Obama narrative to see the obvious questions, or simply
unwilling to explore issues that might embarrass them or impugn the Obama legacy.
President Assad of Syria clearly had and probably still has nerve
gas. Several independent international agencies have confirmed that it was Sarin
nerve gas that was dropped on a rebel village by a Syrian government plane
flying from the airbase that President Trump just attacked.
Here are the questions that the news OUGHT to be asking:
President Obama assured the world that all of Assad’s biological
weapons and nerve gas stocks were destroyed and/or removed from the country,
under the agreement brokered by Russian President Putin. Was Obama just
suckered by Assad and Putin (which is bad enough), or did he in fact know that
his statement wasn’t true (even worse)?
There are some stories that the intelligence community knew or at least
suspected that Assad still had stocks of these weapons. Are they true, and if so,
did Obama know, and if not, why didn’t he know?
Did President Putin know Assad still had these stocks? If so, he really suckered Obama. If not, he was played by Assad. He comes out looking bad either way.
The loudest spokesperson for how sure the administration was
that the stocks had been eliminated was Susan Rice. Did she lie? Or did she –
the president’s National Security Advisor – not know what the intelligence community
knew? The latter seems unlikely, so if
she lied to the public about this, how much trust can we put in her current
statement that she didn’t leak any of the names of Trump campaign people that she
unmasked in the intelligence reports she admits to have read?
These are the sorts of question a news organization with
some integrity would be asking. What can we conclude from the fact that the
major news organizations are not asking these questions?
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