WRITTEN BY CHRISS W. STREET
“Wag the Dog” is the political strategy for a national leader to start a military operation to divert negative attention away from him. In 1997, Hollywood produced a Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman movie by the same name about an American President caught up in a sex scandal that decides to start a war in the Balkans to distract the public. Eighteen months later with President Bill Clinton facing a sex scandal, he started a war in the Balkans. With embattled President Barack Obama facing a scandal about electronic spying on the private lives of almost every voter in America, it should not be surprising that he would make “A decision to provide lethal assistance,” including weapons, ammunition and air support to the Syrian rebels. Using the Wag the Dog strategy might have worked in the past, but the mushrooming privacy scandal seems destined to continue to grow. Continue reading