Posted on 04/24/2011 5:22:31 PM PDT by nuconvert
FOR THE PAST five weeks, growing numbers of Syrians have been gathering in cities and towns across the country to demand political freedom — and the security forces of dictator Bashar al-Assad have been responding by opening fire on them. According to Syrian human rights groups, more than 220 people had been killed by Friday. And Friday may have been the worst day yet: According to Western news organizations, which mostly have had to gather information from outside the country, at least 75 people were gunned down in places that included the suburbs of Damascus, the city of Homs and a village near the southern town of Daraa, where the protests began.
Massacres on this scale usually prompt a strong response from Western democracies, as they should. Ambassadors are withdrawn; resolutions are introduced at the U.N. Security Council; international investigations are mounted and sanctions applied. In Syria’s case, none of this has happened. The Obama administration has denounced the violence — a presidential statement called Friday’s acts of repression “outrageous” — but otherwise remained passive. Even the ambassador it dispatched to Damascus during a congressional recess last year remains on post.
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Even the WaPo is fed up
So what are we supposed to do about it? Especially considering the protesters are no friends of America.
What are WE supposed to do, though? Bomb?
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If we want to put an end to the suggestions that we intervene in conflicts all over the world, all we have to do is put a Republican in the White House.
No Oil, why bother. That is your answer.
WaPo is now calling for war on Syria. Obama must be planning a war and needs the support of the media. They must have sent the memo to WaPo to call for the invasion of Syria.
“What are WE supposed to do, though?”
Read the last paragraph of the piece and smile cuz the WP is raining on Obama’s re-election campaign parade. :~ )
It’s Easter Sunday so I won’t say it.
No Obama is just a leftist mess who covers for all our enemies and immediately distrusts our friends.
Sure, why not? Let's have 4 wars. Or maybe an even dozen. I am sure our military can handle it.
While we're at it, let's cut the defense budget another $100,000,000,000. And freeze everyone's pay. And cut more troops.
I am sure the math will all work......somehow.
“They must have sent the memo to WaPo to call for the invasion of Syria.”
Nah...the WH wouldn’t want WaPo to go as far as it did and call Obama a liar
Let them fix their own problems — we have tried to breast feed the entire world ever since the end of WWII. We are broke and our mammary glands have dried up.
Perhaps the gallant army in blue helmets can do something about saving Syria.
Syria and Iran are tied at the hip. Does anyone really want Obama in charge of an action like that?
I don’t. Sheesh, he didn’t even have a plan for Libya.
It isn’t our job to intervene in other countries having civil wars.
Liberals are so predictable.
Yeah - when Bush is in office, the Liberal rags are screaming, “We’re not the world’s policeman!”
Now, with Obama mired in Libya and sinking deeper, the refrain is, “It’s up to America to clean up the planet!”
Bollocks.
Syria is anti Israel.
Obango will do all he can to make sure it stays that way.
Naw Obama will go help Ralia Odinga in Nigeria slaughter the Christians who won the elections.
So, does the ComPost want us to start a fourth war?
And then maybe a fifth war?
And a sixth war? Gee, it’s a good thing Zero is a Democrat President, or someone might accuse him of being a warmonger.
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