The first is the resurrection of Obama's Long Form Birth Certificate or lack thereof. Obama has been extremely reluctant to intervene directly in Syria. Arming cutthroat Jihadis is OK to Obama but boots on the ground is not. There have been ample opportunities for Obama to intervene if he had wanted, e.g. al Houla, but he has refused. This resulted in a series of scandals earlier this year all implicating Obama. The most recent and devastating is that caused by Ed Snowden. Snowden came forth with the scandal that Obama allegedly reads all your emails and texts just as al Qusair, an important hub for the cutthroat Jihadis, was liberated by the Syrian Arab Army. Obama then apparently saw evidence that Assad had used chemical weapons and declared an escalation of military intervention in Syria against Assad. But, as the Washington Post recently expressed, no escalation has occured, due to disagreements in Congress among other reasons. As a result the rebels are now attacking each other, a sure sign they are close to collapse, and they are also threatening more cannibalism if arms are not forthcoming and enforcing a blockade on the civilians of Aleppo who have refused to support them (Assad is breaking the blockade by airlifts). So to put the ultimate pressure on Obama the birther issue has been resurrected. The last time this was raised Obama used his last 'get out of jail free' card and Osama bin Laden was allegedly killed in Abbottabad (even though he had been dead for nearly a decade).
The second is the decision by Der Fuhrer David Cameron that the DFQ will NOT arm the Syrian rebels because such action has been deemed as not worth it by the British military.
David Cameron has ditched plans to arm the Syrian rebels after being warned by military chiefs that there is little point sending weapons unless he is prepared for all-out war with the Assad regime.
Defence chiefs told the Prime Minister that sending small arms or ground to air missiles is ‘hardly worth it’ since it would make little difference to the outcome of the conflict.
General Sir David Richards, Chief of the Defence Staff, and other commanders told Mr Cameron that even options like a no-fly zone would require air attacks on Syrian defences lasting weeks or even months.
[source : PM ditches plan to arm Syrian rebels after military chief says it's 'hardly worth it' unless he launches all-out war, The Daily Mail, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2363803/PM-ditches-plan-arm-Syrian-rebels-military-chief-says-hardly-worth-unless-launches-war.html, 15th July 2013]
This is not a cause for great celebration. The DFQ will still train and advise 'moderate' elements of the rebels. And there is still the possibility of an all out war, which in light of the Obama birther issue being resurrected, cannot be discounted.
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