Posted on 10/04/2015 7:49:37 PM PDT by Mariner
BERLIN (AFP) -
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Sunday that "military efforts" were needed in Syria but they would not be enough to end four years of bloodshed in the war-scarred country.
Merkel urged talks with all sides in the conflict, in an interview with public broadcaster Deutschlandradio.
"On Syria, I have said we will need military efforts -- but military efforts will not bring about a solution," she said.
"We need a political process, which has had difficulties getting under way."
The German leader reiterated a call for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to be involved in any peace talks to end the conflict, noting that his representatives had taken part in several rounds of UN-led negotiations in Geneva.
(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...
Where the heck is any semblance of a coalition or alliance?
Putin is moving now while he still has a total lack of U.S. leadership, and as a direct result of the lack of U.S. leadership, and the fact we’ve lost our friends over there.
“warmonger”
Well, we all seemed to be happier Amercans when we were kicking Germany’s butt every twenty years.
Maybe offer them ‘best three out of five’? After Urkle leaves office of course.
Who didn’t have support from the citizenry, and who have been brought in from all around the Muslim world.
Doubtful. Post a supporting link to that quote or else be forever labeled as a liar.
You have a good grasp on things.
I can’t keep up but have one good way of knowing what’s right and what’s wrong: If POS Obama is for it, it must be bad and vice versa.
I’ve never seen such confusion in my life.
would be fun to see LOL.
Poor southack doesn’t know that Obama said anyone who objected to his capitulation to Iran wanted “war.”
Do your own homework, southhack, or stew in your own cluelessness.
You're too dishonest to know (or admit!) the difference between that critique from a different slam of "war-monger."
You also don't know how to post requested URLs: MarvinStinson Gets Schooled, Here Is Obama's Critique of His Iran Deal Foes
"None of these arguments hold up. They didn't back in 2002 and 2003 and they shouldn't now," Obama said. "The same mind-set, in many cases offered by the same people who seem to have no compunction with being repeatedly wrong, led to a war that did more to strengthen Iran, more to isolate the United States, than anything we have done in the decades before or since."
"Obama said, insisting later that "some form of war" was assured if the Iran deal falls through."
Clueless southhack is stuck in 2002.
Poor southhack relies on lefty CNN for his “facts.”
And southhack calls others an “idiot.”
I’m still right. You’re still wrong.
I also know how to post links. You still don’t.
You’re new here. Wearing out your welcome. You seem very...troll-like.
NY TIMES By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVISAUG. 5, 2015
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/06/us/politics/obama-urges-critics-of-iran-deal-to-ignore-drumbeat-of-war.html
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Rejecting Iran nuclear deal is a vote for war, Obama says
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33792567
Poor southhack is FIXATED on Marvin Stinson.
Poor Marvin the newbie troll is not long for this forum.
Southhack thinks he owns FR.
It’s a two way world, southhack.
YOU are wearing out your welcome.
You still don’t know how to post links, and after criticizing CNN as my source, you quote the NY Times.
You are clueless.
Troll alert!
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