Posted on 04/07/2017 2:36:40 PM PDT by Kaslin
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley forced Bolivia to "defend the atrocities of the Syrian regime" in "full public view" on Friday, after the country's ambassador requested a closed session to discuss President Trump's strikes in Syria.
Trump ordered the missile strikes in response to a chemical weapons attack by Syrian President Bashar Assad Tuesday which killed dozens in northern Syria.
Haley revealed the Bolivian ambassador's request for a private emergency session of the U.N. Security Council in a written statement Friday morning.
She countered: "The United States, as president of the Council this month, decided the session would be held in the open. Any country that chooses to defend the atrocities of the Syrian regime will have to do so in full public view, for all the world to hear.”
At the session, Haley stood by the U.S. actions, and said that when the international community fails to act, it is up to individual states to act themselves.
”The moral state of the Assad regime could no longer go unanswered. His crimes against humanity could no longer be met with empty words. It was time to say enough. But not only say it, it was time to act,” she said.
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She’s a pitbull! I wasn’t too sure about her but I”ve been pleasantly surprised!
Me too. She’s been refreshingly firm and outspoken, with an “I don’t care what you think, it’s about time someone told you all what’s needed to be said for a very long time so shut up and deal with it” demeanor.
Who is going to replace Assad?
This guy might get my vote for that job:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Hamzah_bin_Hussein
One of the sons of King Abdullah of Jordan. (by his third wife)
She seems like a completely different person from who we’ve known her to be as a governor. I’m still trying to make sense of it.
Actually Tillerson said Assad must step down.
Just remember that sunni majority countries generally elect hardliners sharia advocates, many committed to jihad.
I really wish someone would show us some evidence from an unbiased source.
Repairing a few bridges she burned with her 2016 SotU speech rebuttal.
Same Assad can rule Syria, but without the use of Saran gas which incinerates lungs of victims and babies. If we are against abortions, to be consistent, we should be against brutal murders of innocent babies and civilians by horrible chemical weapons. Otherwise we would be justified being called hypocrites and phonies.
Show me the evidence he did not! Looks to me like those who are saying there is no evidence Assad was responsible for using deadly & horrible chemical weapons, have zero access to military spy satellite intel.
Very Bolton-esque.....soon to be Haley-esque
There was another chemical gas attack in Syria today. Now what?
A replacement for Assad imposed on Syria will be either Sunni or, more likely, Shia. The genocide of the minorities that were Assad's power base and that he protected will commence. That includes Christians, Alawites (Assad is one), Kurds, Azeris, Druses, and others. The Alawites are nominally Shia but are actually barely Moslem. Assad is the bloody tyrant that he is depicted but all of them are that, and any that we can replace him with are worse alternatives. In an Arab or Arabized Moslem country that is the only kind of boss that can survive.
I am not evading. I say let putin decide. You like putin. Don’t you trust them to find a chap who is not so vile?
I agree many are doing too much hand wringing, but this was a significant act.
I know. It seems FR has gotten a lot of their anti-American, code pink posters.
The assertion that Assad “must step down” doesn’t have the same character as the message we delivered to Saddam Hussein. So, if we’re expressing a demand for regime change in Syria, we certainly aren’t going about it the same way as we did in Iraq. And I’d expect the character of the eventual methodology to reflect that.
There is one thing seems quite apparent, at this moment: we nor anyone else are achieving an Assad-less Syria without Putin’s buy-in.
“Fixing runways is not that hard and only a temporary measure.”
True enough, but not germane, as we didn’t destroy any.
I think the rest of your post really gets to the meat and potatoes of Trump’s move, though. Y’ever watch that 1987 film “The Untouchables” about Eliot Ness taking down Al Capone? The U.S. missile strike was like our way of leaving some bloody writing on Assad’s living room walls.
We live in a representative republic. Our elected leaders act for us and possess more information than we do.
Where did this last chem attack originate?
Take the base out.
I have been looking for conformation of this second gas attack.
Perhaps this is a mistake,,,?
or just Fake News
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