Arab states call for international action against Syrian regime

NBC ^ | 9/1/2013 | Kristen Welker, Daniel Arkin

[South40]

President Barack Obama's surprise move to seek congressional authorization before ordering any military action against the Syrian regime was met with a mixed reception around the world Sunday, with a chorus of Arab states calling for intervention — while a key Syrian government official disparaged the White House for a lack of leadership.

At an Arab League meeting in Cairo on Sunday evening, foreign ministers passed a resolution pressing the United Nations and the global community to “take the deterrent and necessary measures against the culprits of this crime that the Syrian regime bears responsibility for,” according to Reuters.

The ministers also concluded that those responsible for the lethal chemical weapons attack should face trial just like other “war criminals.”

[Dallas59]

Something stinks to high heaven about all of this. Obammy does nothing when Africans get slaughtered....but goes all macho suddenly over this. Me thinks Europe and the Saudis are behind Bammys marching orders.

[Sherman Logan]

Jordan?

[Veggie Todd]

The Arab League can referee their own Muz-on-Muz cage match.

Can I get it on pay-per-view? I've got the popcorn ready.

[Mastador1]

Arabs can deal with their Arab problem. They paid to have their corner of the world turn into a bloody hell hole so now they can deal with own damn problem. Oh and keep your friggin oil we have enough to wait out you return to the stone age.

[SUSSA]

If the Arab states want to fight in Syria let them do it. It’s not our fight and we have reason to help al-Qa’ida take over the country.

[Hardraade]

Will he seek authorization from all 57 states?

[Netz]

Not so simple unfortunately. It would be easy and very isolationist to just say that they should just sit in their hell hole and rot. Problem is they bring their crap to your front doorstep (9/11).

No, they must be kept in check somehow. Let them kill each other off yes, but should they step out of line, they need to be slammed.

This is, after all what Arabs understand and RESPECT. For all the violence, they really get disciplined when you kill them en masse. I know this sounds terrible but look at Egypt. The MB stormed the police and wham 600 dead, 800 dead, 500 dead and now...the streets of Cairo are quiet with MBs in prison. THAT is how it is done in that part of the world.

Israel could have ended two intifadas overnight by mowing them down but no, due to Western sensitivities, UN intervention and moral platitudes from Europe these uprisings went on their bloody way for years.

The world wants Israel to play with kid gloves while their buses and cafes were exploding. So they agree and many die in the process.

In the Arab world, there is no mercy, only force and when Obama and Kerry figure this out there will be quiet, even though it is temporary.

This delay in attacking them only plays into their hands.

[Mastador1]

I have no problem with slapping them down if they step out of their sandbox. What I have a problem with is expending more American lives and tax dollars IN their sandbox. They want to live by medieval rules put in place by a syphilitic pedophile then let burn in their own hell. I am OK with getting the Coptic Christians to safety, but as far as Arabs calling on the rest of the world, meaning America, to clean up the mess that they bought and paid for absolutely not!

[lewislynn]

a chorus of Arab states calling for intervention

Who's stopping you?

[Netz]

Agreed. Question is, what about allies in the region? Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, still Egypt, even dumb-fu*k Turkey.
What about them now that the US is losing the Mid-East and then there’s Iran. The single biggest problem coming at us like a Nuclear Freight Train?
Once Iran goes Nuclear, the whole world changes. Are we going to stop them or not?

[dagogo redux]

If Obama gassed a bunch of his citizens, they would look a lot like us . . . or something like that.

[sauropod]

Precisely.

[Yosemitest]

Obama's Oil and Gas War for Muslim Terrorists has already started!

Read this Intelligence Analysis Study:

The geopolitical dimension of Syria, Turkey Israel and the Greater Middle East Energy War
Posted on February 19, 2013

Intelligence Analysis Study

The significant question to be asked at this point is
what could bind Israel, Turkey, Qatar in a form of unholy alliance on the one side,
and Assad’s Syria, Iran, Russia and China on the other side,
in such deadly confrontation over the political future of Syria?
One answer is energy geopolitics.

What has yet to be fully appreciated in geopolitical assessments of the Middle East
is the dramatically rising importance of the control of natural gas to the future
of not only Middle East gas producing countries,
but also of the EU and Eurasia
including Russia as producer and China as consumer.

Natural gas is rapidly becoming the “clean energy” of choice to replace coal and nuclear electric generation across the European Union,
most especially since Germany’s decision to phase out nuclear after the Fukushima disaster.
Gas is regarded as far more “environmentally friendly” in terms of its so-called “carbon footprint.”
The only realistic way EU governments, from Germany to France to Italy to Spain, will be able to meet EU mandated CO2 reduction targets by 2020
is a major shift to burning gas instead of coal.
Gas reduces CO2 emissions by 50-60% over coal.
Given that the economic cost of using gas instead of wind or other alternative energy forms is dramatically lower,
gas is rapidly becoming the energy of demand for the EU, the biggest emerging gas market in the world.

Huge gas resource discoveries in Israel, in Qatar and in Syria combined with the emergence of the EU as the world’s potentially largest natural gas consumer,
combine to create the seeds of the present geopolitical clash over the Assad regime.

Syria-Iran-Iraq Gas pipeline

In July 2011, as the NATO and Gulf states’ destabilization operations against Assad in Syria were in full swing,
the governments of Syria, Iran and Iraq signed an historic gas pipeline energy agreement
which went largely unnoticed amid CNN reports of the Syrian unrest.
The pipeline, envisioned to cost $10 billion and take three years to complete, would run from the Iranian Port Assalouyeh near the South Pars gas field in the Persian Gulf, to Damascus in Syria via Iraq territory.
Iran ultimately plans then to extend the pipeline from Damascus to Lebanon’s Mediterranean port where it would be delivered to EU markets.
Syria would buy Iranian gas along with a current Iraqi agreement to buy Iranian gas from Iran’s part of South Pars field.
South Pars, whose gas reserves lie in a huge field that is divided between Qatar and Iran in the Gulf,
is believed to be the world’s largest single gas field.
De facto it would be a Shi’ite gas pipeline from Shi’ite Iran via Shi’ite-majority Iraq onto Shi’ite-friendly Alawite Al-Assad’s Syria.

Adding to the geopolitical drama is the fact that the South Pars gas find lies smack in the middle of the territorial divide in the Persian Gulf between Shi’ite Iran and the Sunni Salafist Qatar.
Qatar also just happens to be a command hub for the Pentagon’s US Central Command, headquarters of United States Air Forces Central,
No. 83 Expeditionary Air Group RAF, and the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing of the USAF.
In brief Qatar, in addition to owning and hosting the ANTI-Al-Assad TV station Al-Jazeera, which beams ANTI-Syria propaganda across the Arab world,
Qatar is tightly linked to the US and NATO military presence in the Gulf.
Qatar apparently has OTHER PLANS with their share of the South Pars field than joining up with Iran, Syria and Iraq to pool efforts.
Qatar has NO INTEREST in the success of the Iran-Iraq-Syria gas pipeline,
which would be entirely independent of Qatar or Turkey transit routes to the opening EU markets.
In fact IT IS DOING EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO SABOTAGE IT, UP TO AND INCLUDING ARMING SYRIA'S RAG-TAG “OPPOSITION” FIGHTERS,
MANY OF THEM JIHADISTS sent in from other countries INCLUDING SAUDI ARABIA, PAKISTAN AND LIBYA.

Further adding to QATAR'S DETERMINATION TO DESTROY THE SYRIA-IRAN-IRAQ GAS COOPERATION
is the discovery in August 2011 by Syrian exploration companies of a huge new gas field in Qara
near the border with Lebanon and NEAR TO THE RUSSIAN-LEASED NAVAL PORT OF TARTUS ON THE SYRIAN MEDITERRANEAN. Any export of Syrian or Iranian gas to the EU would go through the Russian-tied port of Tartus.
According to informed Algerian sources, the new Syrian gas discoveries, though the Damascus government is downplaying it, are believed to EQUAL OR EXCEED THOSE OF QATAR.
As Asia Times’ knowledgeable analyst Pepe Escobar pointed out in a recent piece,
Qatar’s scheme calls for export of its huge gas reserves via Jordan’s Gulf of Aqaba,
a country where a Muslim Brotherhood THREAT TO THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE KING IS ALSO THREATENING.
The Emir of Qatar has apparently CUT A DEAL WITH THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD
in which he backs their international expansion
in return for a pact of peace at home in Qatar.
A Muslim Brotherhood regime in Jordan and also in Syria, backed by Qatar, would change the entire geopolitics of the world gas market
suddenly and decisively in Qatar’s favor
AND TO THE DISADVANTAGE OF RUSSIA, SYRIA, IRAN AND IRAQ.
That would also be A STAGGERING NEGATIVE BLOW TO CHINA.
As Escobar points out,
“it’s clear what Qatar is aiming at:
TO KILL THE U.S. $10 billion Iran-Iraq-Syria gas pipeline,
a deal that was clinched even as the Syria uprising was already underway.
Here we see QATAR IN DIRECT COMPETITION WITH both Iran (as a producer) and Syria (as a destination),
and to a lesser extent, Iraq (as a transit country).
It’s useful to remember that TEHRAN AND BAGHDAD ARE ADAMENTLY ÅGAINST REGIME CHANGE IN DAMASCUS.”
He adds, “if there’s regime change in Syria – helped by the Qatari-proposed invasion – things get much easier in Pipelineistan terms.
A more than probable Muslim Brotherhood (MB) post-Assad regime would more than welcome a Qatari pipeline.
And that would make an extension to Turkey much easier.”

WORLD WAR III is coming, quicker than you think.
It's going to go NUCLEAR real fast.

Read your Bible (especially about "the remnant of Syria" and "the king of the north", "the king of the south") !

[Smokin' Joe]

After all these years of selling us oil, I think they can afford their own wars. Let them take care of it.

[DaveA37]

Let the arab states use all the aid we have given them (forever) against Syria. IT IS NOT OUR WAR so stay out of it.

[DaveA37]

Let the arab states use all the aid we have given them (forever) against Syria. IT IS NOT OUR WAR so stay out of it.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Exactly...

“Let Allah sort it out.”

(Palin)

[DaveA37]

Osumbo needs this war to keep the heat off his screw ups. Right now, you don't see a single story about the status of each scandal under review, if any are actually being checked into. What ever happened to Fast & Furious, Benghazi, IRS, DHS and on and on and on?
Keep the waters stirred and never let a good crisis go to waste. Right now it looks like Syria is their current crisis. As soon as Congress (hopefully) denies attacking Syria, ANOTHER crisis will surface in order to keep the heat off of those pesky, never to be resolved “phony scandals”.

[silverleaf]

please godless infidels come clean up the political mess in our holy brother state but do not intervene in our affairs or we will slit the throats of your children, god willing

and oh by the way, oil at $109 barrel is very very good with us