Assad has less than 10 days to live. It's only a question of who will

[CK_John]

be the instrument of justice.

Mitt has already jumped on board will probably claim to have financed the campaign against Assad.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Do you mean we back his assassination?

[coalition_unwilling]

4. You do realize that the U.S. forces assassinating foreign leaders is a violation of federal law and

has been since, oh, the Ford Administration?

[ProgressiveProfessor]

9. It is an Executive Order, not Federal Law

Executive Order 12333 to be precise. http://www.fas.org/irp/crs/RS21037.pdf is a good discussion of it.

You cannot be tried in a court or sent to jail for violating Executive Orders.

[coalition_unwilling]

12. I was not aware of the distinction prior to today and I thank

you for drawing it. I knew it was an EO, but was not aware that no criminal liability thus attached for violating it.

I would note that this is/was a classic case of a drive-by OP. No sign of the person who started the thread.

[freshwest]

24. +1. Smells like FR.

[Kaleva]

23. Actually one can be.

"Most executive orders are issued under specific statutory authority from Congress and have the force and effect of law. Such executive orders usually impose sanctions, determine legal rights, limit agency discretion, and require immediate compliance. Federal courts consider such orders to be the equivalent of federal statutes. In addition, regulations that are enacted to carry out these executive orders have the status of law as long as they reasonably relate to the statutory authority. An administrative action that is carried out under a valid executive order is similar to an agency action that is carried out under a federal statute. In each case, the agency's authority to enact rules and to issue orders comes from Congress.

Absent specific statutory authority, an executive order may have the force and effect of law if Congress has acquiesced in a long-standing executive practice that is well-known to it...."

http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Executive+Order

[MADem]

27. That is a wonderful link you provided--thank you for it.

I was aware of Ford's document, but Reagan's passed me by completely (I was a Very Busy Person in those years!).

[sibelian]

8. Then perhaps you should carry it out yourself.

I'd advise against such a course of action, personally.

[Trajan]

2. On what basis do you make the claim that Assad will be dead in 10 days?

Why is this ?

[Scootaloo]

5. He's hoping

Just another person in a comfy chair wishing for someone else's death. And then having the balls to call it "justice."

[karynnj]

6. From at least 2008, this poster has stated as fait accomplis

completely outrageous things - that do not happen. Eventually he will hit something right. This is dangerous because it is stating - obliquely that Assad will be assassinated.

[tabatha]

7. deleted

[CreekDog]

10. Another fair accompli prediction

thanks to the other poster for the appropro term.

[David__77]

11. We will see in ten days - I personally doubt that.

But it would be negative for the Syrian people. Hardliners in the Baath Party would take over, and no good could come of it. Al-queda is probably plotting it more than anyone else, as it would serve their "clash of civilizations" ideology.

[riderinthestorm]

13. I agree. Assassinating Assad will almost certainly provoke even more of a bloodbath

and probably drive Syria and the region into a civil war for a generation.

I'm staggered that DUers don't seem to understand the dynamics at play in Syria. Flip statements like the OP would have dire consequences in turning this low grade civil war into a major regional fire.

[David__77]

14. Thankfully, NATO and the US will not intervene militarily - directly.

Their chosen proxies in Syria are quite inept, by the way. Obama is not so foolish as to openly facilitate the creation of Salafist terrorist base at the heart of the Arab countries.

[tabatha]

16. Nonsense.

[David__77]

18. You think Obama IS foolish enough?

Or you think that US/NATO will intervene directly?

I could be wrong - we will see!

[tabatha]

15. I am staggered that you do not understand that the only person committing

the bloodbath is Assad, with the help of Iranians (they fessed up), Russian weapons, Hezbollah troops and some Al Qaeda types from Iraq.

[riderinthestorm]

26. Sorry Tabatha but I firmly disagree. There's blood on both sides.

Assad is for sure the greater sinner here but the Shia/Sunni/Christian frictions and low level conflicts cannot be dismissed. Assad is a bloody dictator/strongman but he's part of a reviled minority in the Islamic world, the Shia, and an even smaller sub-faction the Allawites. There are tribal issues here and regional tensions that are inflaming the situation even more so. Ignoring all of that is naive at best imho.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

17. Is that ten business days?

[pinboy3niner]

19. :)

[scheming daemons]

20. CK_John has NEVER posted anything that has EVER come true

Not one time.

[Iggo]

25. You mean McCain never dropped out of the '08 race...

...to endorse Bobby Jindal?

[FSogol]

28. Exactly. What was Bugs Bunny's catch phrase again?

[brooklynite]

21. Unrec

...for an OP that provides absolutely no evidence or analysis supporting its major prediction.

[DavidDvorkin]

22. My sources say he has eleven days

Possibly more.

[DavidDvorkin]

29. Let's count. Today marks one day since that prediction was made.