Posted on 09/09/2013 8:01:04 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
MOSCOW (AP) — In a surprise move, Russia promised Monday to push its ally Syria to place its chemical weapons under international control and then dismantle them quickly to avert U.S. strikes.
The announcement by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov came a few hours after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said that Syrian President Bashar Assad could resolve the crisis surrounding the alleged use of chemical weapons by his forces by surrendering control of "every single bit" of his arsenal to the international community by the end of the week.
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What people forget is that Obama cannot use the verbal bludgeon of “racism” in response to the disagreeing courts of Europe, as he easily does in the US when the political opposition is entrenched. He is powerless without this amulet and the US media, therefore his buffoonery rises to the top without his lapdog media filters to protect him. He has lost his great weapon of moral superiority, the one cultural blow torch that incinerates all non-believers, his screaming accusation of racism that would blow hollow, almost laughable, were he now to pursue it.
The chemical business is just a pretext for a US intervention to back a revolt that is not doing well.
I don’t recall what pretext we used with Gaddafi, but its the same thing. When the rebels started losing we came in and bombed them to victory.
Now, from the US point of view there are very good reasons to get rid of Assad, mainly in that it weakens the Iranian government, switches the Lebanese balance of power, gets Israel a Syrian state that less capable of making serious trouble, and gives the Russians and Chinese a black eye. But these reasons are not things the US government - any US government - can discuss openly.
The US and the Sunni Arab coalition backing the rebels screwed up badly early on, or perhaps the tool in question was just never going to be up to the job. Now that the Syrian rebels are thoroughly corrupted by the Jihadis and the US is already looking weak on the matter, it may be best for the Syrian thing to be left to take its course.
I am confused?
Since when is diplomacy like this handled through public media channels?
No, Damascus must cease to be a city first.
Kerry recommends it? Yet, there are no actual diplomatic channels open? This is all being negotiated via the media?
Who is playing who here. Assad has a long history of agreeing to stuff and then not following through.
When the guy who occupies the White House presents a greater danger than the Russian president, we look for friends wherever we find 'em.
Alaska.
Excellent observation.
Checkers? "Chutes and Ladders" is more like it...
the infowarrior
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