Posted on 10/07/2013 3:44:11 PM PDT by Nachum
State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf condemned President Bashar al-Assad Monday, but left the door open for portions of the government to remain in place if Assad were to be removed from office.
The State Department believes this is best way to proceed while Syria is dismantling its chemical weapons in order to avoid a ‘complete political implosion.’
Below is a transcript of the exchange:
Q: — even more so. So if you begin to dismantle that in this crucial time where you want to make sure that the chemical weapons really will not get out to anyone else, isn’t it dangerous to suddenly remove Assad from the picture or even the regime from the picture?
MS. HARF: Well, it’s a good question. And what we’ve said is, as we move towards a political transition, we actually don’t want to disassemble the political and governmental structure of the entire regime for exactly that reason and others, quite frankly, because we don’t want to have complete political implosion in Syria. We need some political structure going forward for a democratic transitional body, or whatever we’ll call it, to take — to take the lead there in the place of Assad. So there’s a reason that we think it’s important to keep some of those institutions intact.
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They could always disassemble their entire health care system.
“It’s not so much a Red Line as it is a Chalk Line.” - Senior White House official
Forget their regime.
I want to disassemble, try and convict OUR entire regime here.
On that note, I can think of another regime that I’d like to dismantle.
Memo: To Department of State
From: bert
Re: Syria
You are no longer relevant and have surrendered any credibility you think you have.
Others will run with the ball you fumbled
CC:
Foreign ministers: Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Israel
Now there’s a corpse man!
No disassemble Stephanie!
Re your pic 7 of JF’nK:
I love the picture. It makes Kerry look like an old fellow who’s lost his marbles, escaped the assisted living facility, and lucked out by stumbling into a group of Balinese dancers.
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