Syria's Assad deploys army; Clinton says no US intervention

Jerusalem Post ^ | 3-27-11

[Las Vegas Ron]

I wonder which side of her mouth the Hildabeest was using when she made that statement.

This one.

[elpadre]

Obama’s team clearly is taking on Libya and not Syria, Iran, or any of the other Islamist dictators is because Libya is an easy mark. They are weak militarily, not supported by the Islamists and no one will cry when defeated. For the Western powers, including us, it is nothing but a duck shoot in the fair grounds - pling, pling, pling!!!

Try the same with Syria or Iran and all hell will break loose!! Obama and Clinton are scared to death of them, doncha know!!

[Las Vegas Ron]

Obama’s team clearly is taking on Libya and not Syria, Iran, or any of the other Islamist dictators is because Libya is an easy mark.

No, you are missing the obvious....think Israel....

[Baynative]

Hillary "plants one" on the cheek of Suha Arafat, wife of palestinian terrorist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Yassar Arafat.

[Las Vegas Ron]

Let's not forget this.....

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[mazda77]

It’s the African Continent thing.

[chris37]

That’s today’s line.

Wonder what tommorow’s will be...

World being set on fire.

Yep.

[Robe]

Surely seems to be a pattern here, sovereign countries which have seemed to have helped us with TWOT are now being /have been overthrown with the help either militarily or politically by this Administration.
I wonder how long the military will allow itself to be used to the detriment of the United States

[Iron Munro]

So should we attack Syria?

That's not necessarily in our best interests.

We should just have the French bomb Hillary.

[SaxxonWoods]

I’m still trying to connect the dots. Why Libya? Maybe because Gaddafi is Sunni and ruling over a Shia majority, and Obama seems to prefer Shia. He has coddled Iran, and now says he won’t attack Assad (Shia) in Syria.

He has stuck with the Bush policy on Iraq (former ruler was Sunni oppressing Shia majority), has escalated in Afghanistan against Taliban (Sunni).

He has almost tripled the drone attacks in North Wajiristan (Sunni), after campaigning against “bombing villages and killing civilians”).

He seems to prefer the Hezbollah (Shia) to Israel.

Am I correct that Egypt is a majority Shia country?

Any corrections welcome, but Obama looks like he really loves the Shia for some reason.

[Steelfish]

This administration is set of buffoons. They telegraph to the Syrian tyrant that he won’t befall the same fate of Quadaffi no matter how much innocent blood he and his army goons will spiill.

[onedoug]

However, if Israel counter-attacks so-called palestinians, all bets are off.

[IMR 4350]

“And soooooo, what made Libya so special???”

Al Quada is low on funds and they need the oil money.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks SJackson.

Clinton says US deplores bloodshed in Syria but a Libya-style intervention not expected

[SJackson]

Libya is largely Sunni. I don't think it's a Sunni-Shia thing with Barry. Why Libya, he did his brackets, played some golf, it was still there. And probably someone told him to do something.

I think we owe Ghadaffi some payback for Pan Am 103, but I dont' think that's what's happening here. But I don't think it's a Sunni-Shia thing. GWB, in Iraq and Afghanistan (and Gaza and Eqypt who ignored him) was into a vision of democracy. Perhaps naive, but a vision, aka a policy.

Our current CIC, I haven't a clue. If it's protecting civilians, we've got a big job ahead of us.

[mware]

Our current CIC, I haven't a clue. If it's protecting civilians, we've got a big job ahead of us.

Apparently not if they are Christians.

[SJackson]

Yes, it occured to me that if the job we've undertake in Libya is protection of civilians, there are a few in places like China, and Vietnam, Indian Christians, and BHO's etherial homeland, Indonesia, which could use some protection.

Screw the protection, if he'd provide arms and low level training, I'd support him. But I don't think these things are priorities.