Posted on 09/07/2009 12:46:46 AM PDT by indianrightwinger
The Region: America's obsession with dialogue
Sep. 6, 2009 Barry Rubin , THE JERUSALEM POST On August 26, State Department spokesman Ian Kelly was asked what the US thought about the dispute between Iraq and Syria. His answer shockingly recalls the last time a US government made that mistake.
First, some background. Iraqi leader Nuri al-Maliki visited Syria on August 18 to discuss the two countries' relationship. He offered Syrian President Bashar Assad a lot of economic goodies in exchange for expelling 271 Iraqi exiles involved in organizing terrorist attacks against their country. Assad refused. Maliki left.
The next day, huge bombings struck Baghdad, directly targeting the Foreign and Finance Ministries. More than 100 Iraqis were killed and over 600 were wounded. The Iraqi government blamed the very same exiles living in Syria whom Maliki was trying to get kicked out and implicated the Syrian government directly in the attacks. The two countries recalled their ambassadors; the Iraqis are calling for an international tribunal to investigate.
Enter the US. Since the Iraqi government was created by elections made possible by the US invasion, since the same terrorists murdering Iraqis have killed American soldiers, and since Iraq is a US ally and Syria is a terrorist sponsor allied with Iran, what US reaction would you expect?
[SNIP]
And what did the Obama administration do?
Declare its neutrality! Here's what Kelly said, reading from his State Department instructions: "We understand that there has been sort of mutual recall of the ambassadors. We consider that an internal matter. We believe that, as a general principle, that diplomatic dialogue is the best means to address the concerns of both parties. We are working with the Iraqis to determine who perpetrated these horrible acts of violence... We hope this doesn't hinder dialogue between the two
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I serious wish ill for the evil man living in the Whitehouse.
seriously
We’re not allowed to do that, however you
may fart in his general direction.
Oh, and welcome to Freerepublic.
here’s the dialog :
“Surrender immediately or die “
One notes that none of this has seeped to the surface
of the main stream media...
LLS
This is bureaucratese for 'we aren't going to lend a hand when bad guys go wild since we are on their side and don't want to look bad anyways'...
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