Posted on 12/19/2011 4:26:54 PM PST by SunkenCiv
It's going to be a decisive week for Syria. The Syrian National Council (SNC), the de facto umbrella organization representing the country's political opposition, is meeting in Tunis to try and get its house in order and formulate a plan to bring down the house of Assad. At the same time, the Arab League has given President Bashar al-Assad until Wednesday to stop dithering on its six-week-old proposal to end the violence and allow monitors into the country or -- in a pronounced escalation -- perhaps kick the matter up to the United Nations.
Even Russia, which has protected Damascus from censure at the U.N. Security Council, put forward its own draft resolution last week calling on all parties to end the violence, "including disproportionate use of force by the Syrian authorities." Although Syrian rights groups bristled at Moscow's language, which some activists said equated the killer and the victim, Western capitals saw an opportunity to make a deal with Russia. Iraq too, which has hemmed and hawed but largely leaned toward Assad's side, sent a high-ranking delegation to Damascus on the weekend with its own peace initiative...
Unlike Libya's National Transitional Council, which received substantial international recognition almost from the outset, the SNC has yet to be confered such legitimacy by many foreign powers. The organization is plagued by internal bickering, criticism that it has an Islamist skew and, because of the many exiles in its ranks, is not representative of the protesters in Syria...
Turkey, Syria's once-close ally, has hinted at, but shown no real appetite to put its boots on Syrian ground. NATO has ruled out the option, and the U.S. -- having just left Iraq and looking toward an Afghan drawdown as well -- doesn't want to plunge into another potential quagmire...
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
Out they also want to try everyone with blood on their hands. That seems fair.
“We give him immunity, but in reality, we won’t stop anyone who wants to from killing him.”
Immunity my ass!.... Give the bugger the lead tattoo that he deserves!
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