That is one thing the agenda-pushing war-promoter I call a newspaper is good for: telegraphing the next country to be attacked.
"Syria action possible, McCain says" October 24, 2011|Associated Press
SOUTHERN SHUNEH, Jordan - Senator John McCain said yesterday that military action to protect civilians in Syria might be considered now that NATO’s air campaign in Libya is ending....
Related:
"General Wesley Clark, who commanded the North Atlantic Treaty Organization bombing campaign in the Kosovo war, recalls in his 2003 book Winning Modern Wars being told by a friend in the Pentagon in November 2001 that the list of states that Rumsfeld and deputy secretary of defense Paul Wolfowitz wanted to take down included Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya, Sudan and Somalia [and Lebanon]."
I'm always amazed at the clairvoyance of the man.
“Now that military operations in Libya are ending, there will be renewed focus on what practical military operations might be considered to protect civilian lives in Syria,’’ McCain said at the World Economic Forum in Jordan.
“The Assad regime should not consider that it can get away with mass murder. Khadafy made that mistake, and it cost him everything,’’ he added, referring to ousted Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy, who was killed last week by fighters loyal to the new government. “Iran’s rulers would be wise to heed similar counsel.’’
Yeah, they are next on the list after Syria.
In an interview from Tashkent, Uzbekistan, her final stop on a four-nation tour of the region, Clinton warned Iran that the planned US withdrawal of combat troops from Iraq by the end of the year should not be mistaken for a lack of commitment to democracy in the region.
She conceded that Iraq’s stability is not ensured but said the United States would maintain a strong presence in Iraq, through training and support. She also noted that the US military has forces based nearby.
I'm so sick of Hitlery's horseshit.
It was not clear whether McCain, an Arizona Republican, was referring to American or NATO military action against the Syrian regime; owever, international intervention, such as the NATO action in Libya, is all but out of the question in Syria, due to concern that Assad’s ouster would spread chaos across the region.
The important point to note there is it is NOT out of the QUESTION!
Syria is a geographical and political keystone in the heart of the Middle East, bordering five countries with which it shares religious and ethnic minorities and, in Israel’s case, a fragile truce. Its web of alliances extends to Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement and Iran’s Shi’ite theocracy.
That is who all this is being done for. A blind man could see it.
Most Syrian opposition groups, inside and outside Syria, also have said they oppose military intervention.
Since when did that ever stop them?
Mohammad Habash, a member of Syria’s outgoing parliament, said such military action “will only bring catastrophes, wars, and blood, and this is what we don’t wish at all.’’
No one does, but it's a little late now. The globe-kickers got the ball rolling.
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"US pulls envoy out of Syria, citing safety concern" by Bradley Klapper Associated Press / October 24, 2011
WASHINGTON—The Obama administration has pulled its ambassador home from Syria, arguing that his support for anti-Assad activists put him in grave danger....
NATO bombing coming up. This is what governments do when they are readying military actions.
Syria responded quickly Monday, ordering home its envoy from Washington.
American Ambassador Robert Ford was temporarily recalled on Saturday after the U.S. received "credible threats against his personal safety in Syria," the State Department said, pointing directly at President Bashar Assad's government.
No one believes you anymore.
Ford, who already had been the subject of several incidents of intimidation, has enraged Syrian authorities with his forceful defense of anti-Assad demonstrations and his harsh critique of a government crackdown that has now claimed more than 3,000 lives.
Calling Ford back to the U.S. is short of a complete diplomatic break but represents the collapse of the administration's hopes that it could draw Assad toward government changes and a productive role fostering Mideast peace....
Ford's presence in Damascus had been an important symbolic part of President Barack Obama's effort to engage Syria, which was without a U.S. ambassador for years after the Bush administration broke ties over Syria's alleged role in the 2005 assassination of a political candidate in neighboring Lebanon.
I'm SO SICK of SYMBOLIC SHIT!
With Moammar Gadhafi's death last week in Libya, and the revolutions that toppled long-time leaders Hosni Mubarak in Egypt and Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali in Tunisia, Assad is among the Arab Spring autocrats left standing.
Along with Ali Abdullah Saleh in Yemen, he is facing the most pressure from his citizens to leave power.
Yeah, I notice we see a lot less regarding the butcher of Yemen. Oh, right, he's an ally.
Yet with his vast security network and close links with Russia and China, Assad is perhaps the one best placed to withstand pressures for change -- peaceful or violent....
Uh-oh.
The world's attention is turning to Syria....
And we know what world the agenda-pushing elitist paper is referring to, don't we?
If the level of violence resembles Libya's before the NATO intervention, Syria is different because anti-government groups are insisting that they want no outside assistance. The opposition is also hindered in that it remains a largely Sunni movement, with Assad maintaining significant loyalty from his dominant Alawite sect and Syria's minority Druze, Christians and business elite.
Then NATO is going to be needed to dislodge him. That's what this is.
Related:
"Syria’s top Sunni Muslim cleric... is considered a close supporter of Assad’s regime"
So even the largely Sunni movement is a minority, 'eh?
Ford arrived in January as the first American ambassador to Syria since the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri on a Beirut street. Syria at the time had thousands of troops in Lebanon and pulled many political strings there, but it has always denied any involvement in the bombing attack.
Yeah, how did killing that guy benefit Syria? If anyone benefited, it was USrael. Didn't Israel then attack a year later?
Related: Who killed Lebanon's Rafik Hariri?
The Obama administration had hoped to persuade Syria to change its often anti-American policies regarding Israel, Lebanon and Iraq, and to drop its support for extremist groups....
Yeah, right, whatever. It was all about instigating a self-serving split between Syria and Iran.
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"Defectors claim they made attack in Syria; Arab neighbors press for peace" October 27, 2011|By Nada Bakri, New York Times
BEIRUT - A force of Syrian army defectors claimed responsibility for an attack yesterday that killed a military officer and eight soldiers in central Syria, another signal that disaffected troops are taking a larger role in the antigovernment uprising and pushing it into more violence after months of a brutal government crackdown.
Gee, I just can't imagine from where they would be getting support.
Also, an Arab delegation headed by the Qatari prime minister met with President Bashar Assad in Damascus to press his government to negotiate with the street protesters and end the conflict....
I don't even take talk of peace seriously in the war paper anymore. If they wanted peace we would have it.
In the hours before the meeting, the government mustered tens of thousands of supporters to rally in the capital. The Syrian satellite television station Addounia showed footage of thousands of demonstrators filling Umayyad Square in the heart of Damascus. They were waving Syrian flags, holding pictures of the president, and chanting, “The people want Bashar Assad.’’
With most foreign journalists barred from Syria and the government retaining tight control on information, it is difficult to assess how great a role coercion plays in such displays.
As opposed to the anti-Wall Street protests back home that the controlled-opposition creeps are trying to get a hold on and direct. No coercion there, just good, old-fashioned outrage as motivation.
I can't tell you how sick I am of pot-hollering kettle journalism, readers. I guess that's why AmeriKa's newspapers are going extinct.
The country’s military and security forces, which had long appeared largely cohesive, have lost perhaps 10,000 to defections, according to a US official. A fraction of that number have coalesced into two groups, the Free Syrian Army and the Free Officers Movement. Their clashes with Syrian security forces have increased in the past weeks, especially in central and northern Syria....
This is the logical progression when a government is being overthrown by foreign intelligence agencies and their agents.
Speaking of which:
Meanwhile, activists said, several towns in southern, central, and northern Syria complied with a call for a general strike yesterday by the Syrian National Council, an umbrella group of opposition parties and figures. Yesterday’s strike, the group had said, was to be the first phase in a campaign of civil disobedience to bring down the government.
Some regime change is good, right?
Activists said that Syrian security forces had killed at least seven people in the central city of Homs, including an 18-month-old baby....
Syrian baby-killers, got it.
The delegation to Damascus followed a session of the Arab League last week in Cairo, where officials urged the Syrian leadership to end its crackdown before possible foreign intervention and gave Assad until the end of this month to end the oppression or face a vote to suspend Syria’s league membership....
Yes, EVERYONE KNOWS IT IS COMING!
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"Syrian security forces fire on rallies, killing 40; UN inspections are rejected by government
