Half a million people died so we, the Turks, and Qataris, could replace Assad.
If we are successful, instead of Hezbollah and the Syrian Army pointing missiles at Israel, we’ll have Al Qaeda and ISIS pointing missiles at Israel.
Was that worth destroying Syria and killing half a million people?
I feel sick about the fate of Christians in Syria. I can't imagine being a Christian father and looking at my little girl and realize that I am helpless to save her a fate the neocons don't give a sh*t about. But hey, it'll help out the geostrategic interests of Israel and the Saudis so the lives of Christians and others be damned. Extremism in the cause of harming Iran is no vice, and upholding International Law when its helps Iran is no virtue.
When do the clintons get prosecuted for April 19, 1993?
Oh ya, I forgot, it is ok for democrats to gas US citizens and visitors, young and old alike, but no one else.
US policy is to break up the alliances between Russia/Syria, Russia/Iran, and finally Russia/China.
First step: Russia/Syria. Message to Russia: we really would prefer not to have a military solution. It will be much easier for you if you “negotiate” (i.e., accept the US solution by inducing Assad to step down, agreeing to break up Syria into sectarian areas, etc.). But if you choose not to “cooperate,” then things will get very painful for you, i.e., Russian soldiers coming home in body bags, terrorist attacks inside Russia committed by disgruntled Chechens, Dagestanis, Khirgistanis, etc. (with covert support from the CIA, etc.).
So it would be in your strategic interest to cooperate.
Because getting rid of Saddam Hussein, and Daffy Ghadafi, and betraying Mubarak worked just so well.
Syria ends up being another failed state like Libya and host to all sorts of terrorists.
Just effin’ brilliant.
So who replaces the Assad family? The islamic quagmire family?
Tillerson’s Moscow visit has already been downgraded and Putin who is nobodies fool is reaching out directly to other members of the G7 for support for an international inquiry into the gas attack.
Lets get some facts on the table before marching off to war.
Fine. Who’s going to take his place. Hey, I have an idea. Let’s install a puppet regime so 20 years down the line we can do this all over again.
Regime change has worked out so well everywhere else...../x
It would be a good thing IF there were any other contenders to govern the country aside from ISIS.
The reality is, there’s not.
To be replaced by ISIS?
And we will be treated as liberators!
Did folks actually read the whole article?
“It is clear to all of us that the reign of the Assad family is coming to an end,” he said. “But the question of how that ends and the transition itself could be very important in our view to the durability, the stability inside of a unified Syria.”
“That’s why we are not presupposing how that occurs,” Tillerson added.”
Now how does a rational person read this & think Syria will = Iraq or Libya? I don’t understand you folks who repeat the sad defeatism of the past when thus far President Trump hasn’t acted like W or Obama thus far in his foreign policy.
Perhaps many posting in this thread missed Mr Robinson’s recent post.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3542635/posts
I thank God every day for President Trump and pray for his continuing success
Posted on 04/09/2017 2:40:07 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
I thank God every day for President Trump and pray for his continuing success. Had Trump not entered the race, the GOPe would have delivered the nomination to Jeb Bush and then Her Royal Heinous Hillary would be sitting in the White House today.
Those who think that doesn’t make any difference whatsoever are perfectly free to post somewhere else.
God bless President Trump.
God bless America.
For those who, for other excellent reasons, support leaving Assad in place: Read this excerpt from the article twice.:
President Bashar al-Assad and his allies Iran and the militant group Hezbollah.
President Bashar al-Assad and his allies Iran and the militant group Hezbollah.
If Trump really wants to make a deal with Russia to oust Assad he is going to have to offer Russia that Syrian port. Nothing else will do. Perhaps he could extract a reversal of Russian support for Iran in the the process. But that is a long shot.
Also this would be turning over leadership of Syria to the Sunnis. To do that you need to find a Syrian General Sisi (President of Egypt.) I suspect that it is not an easy task to find him and guide the Syrian people in that direction. We might end up with another Muslim Brotherhood Syrian ruler. Or a ruler who is unable to control his country.
Put a moderate muslim in his place and the rebels will still fight because he’s not jihad enough.
And replaced with what? The swamp indeed needs drained. The same crew who had no plan for Iraq or Libya are still there.
The point can be argued but most refugees seem to be fleeing Assad, if Assad stays, more refugees will be coming. So, should zones be set up in Syria so the refugees are not going to the West? That was discussed during the election.
Let them kill each other.
Mr Tillerson just answer one question. “After Assad, what?”
I honestly do not think you have an answer.I think the answer to “After Assad, what?” is the same answer we got to “After Mubarek, what?” i.e. an extremist Western hating government.
Please no more Arab Springs.
They talk about him like he’s a king, but he’s not. He was elected, twice. Now of course, we don’t know much about the nature of these elections, and whether they were like the “elections” of Saddam Hussein or not. But in the long run... unless they take out ISIS too, we’re just making things worse.