Meaning make war on more people. Spoken like a true apologist for empire.
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Who wrote that?
Nicholas Burns is professor of the practice of diplomacy at Harvard Kennedy School. He was undersecretary of state for policy from 2005 to 2008.
That was the time that Khadafy came in from the cold, isn't it?
Oh, yeah, you are next, Syria.
"Syrians take to streets in continuing bid to oust Assad; Situation in Libya buoys dissenters; UN considers rights inquiry" by Elizabeth A. Kennedy, Associated Press / August 23, 2011
BEIRUT - Taking inspiration from the rapid unraveling of the regime in Libya, thousands of Syrians poured into the streets yesterday and taunted President Bashar Assad with shouts that his family’s 40-year dynasty will be the next dictatorship to crumble.
Related: Assad Sits Tight
Assad, who has tried in vain to crush the five-month-old revolt, appears increasingly out of touch as he refuses to acknowledge the hundreds of thousands of people demanding his ouster, analysts say. Instead, he blames the unrest on Islamic extremists and thugs.
Actually, he could be right there.
But many observers say Assad should heed the lessons of Libya....
“Leaders should know that they will be able to remain in power as long as they remain sensitive to the demands of the people,’’ Turkey’s foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, said in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, according to Turkey’s Anatolia news agency....
Then AmeriKa's leaders should not have much longer.
In Geneva yesterday, Arab nations on the UN’s top human rights body cautiously joined the call for Syria to cease its crackdown and cooperate with an international inquiry into possible crimes against humanity.
Kuwait, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, as members of the United Nations Human Rights Council, each condemned the violence, while warning that all nations’ sovereignty should be respected.
That's a joke, right?
But in varying degrees, they and other key nations in the region that are not council members, such as Egypt, voiced deep unease over Syria that seemed to extend to supporting a demand for a UN human rights team to enter and assess its actions.
A UN adviser to the 47-nation council, Jean Ziegler, said a resolution demanding an in-country investigation in Syria would probably gain approval with Arab nations backing it. The council will resume discussion of the proposal today.
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon criticized Assad yesterday for breaking his pledge last week to halt the violence. “It is troubling that he has not kept his word,’’ Ban said.
Syria granted a UN team permission to visit some of the centers of the protests and crackdown to assess humanitarian needs, but activists and a Western diplomat have accused the regime of trying to scrub away signs of the crackdown.
Britain’s defense secretary, Liam Fox, told BBC radio that Assad should “be thinking again’’ about stepping down in light of what has happened in Tripoli overnight.
“There is an unavoidable change in the area - and I think the message to those in that region is that if you do not allow change to be a process it can become an event,’’ he said.
A military intervention has been all but ruled out in Syria, given the quagmire in Libya and the lack of any strong opposition leader in Syria to rally behind.
Yeah, sure. That's what my agenda-pushing paper says.
The United States and other nations have little leverage to threaten further isolation or economic punishment of Assad’s pro-Iranian regime.
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland dismissed the idea of arming the Syrian rebels. “I don’t think anybody thinks that more guns into Syria is going to be the right answer right now,’’ she said. “The Syrians themselves don’t want that.’’
Because they already have been armed.
With neither side in the conflict showing any signs of backing down, many fear a drawn out and bloody stalemate....
Assad's remarks have stayed remarkably similar even as the uprising gained momentum, with the president trying to convey a sense of confidence while insisting his security forces were fighting a foreign conspiracy to stir up sectarian strife....
That is what it is all right.
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Related:
Syria Under Fire: Zionist Destabilization Hits Critical Mass
Since 2004, the Zionist entity’s Mossad and its American partners in the Zionist-founded, Zionist-run National Endowment for Democracy (NED) have funded, armed and trained various opposition factions in Syria, spawning an army of ‘democracy-seeking activists’ ready to mobilize on command. An operations team was assembled by the House of Saud and the usurping Israeli regime.
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Syrians attempt to organize opposition council (By Zeina Karam, Associated Press)
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