"Foreign Secretary William Hague of Britain said Sunday that he could not rule out military intervention in Syria, saying the situation there is beginning to resemble violence that gripped Bosnia in the 1990s. Hague said Syria was “on the edge of collapse or of a sectarian civil war, so I don’t think we can rule anything out.’’
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Related: The Globe's Syrian Selections
Here are a few more, dear reader:
"US warns Syria of future reckoning for deaths; Fears are voiced that regime plans another massacre" by Bassem Mroue | Associated Press, June 12, 2012
BEIRUT - “organizing another massacre’’
remember Bosnia in the 1990s....
a fifth massacre in less than three weeks....
There are no prospects for a NATO intervention like the one that helped topple Libya’s Moammar Khadafy, in part because Russia has promised to veto such a plan....
No prospects, but not ruled out.
And if the Russians veto, so what? EUSraeli will just go around the U.N. like it did on Iraq.
The bloodshed has led to broad condemnation of the regime, although Russia, Iran, and China have stood by Assad.
No offense, AmeriKan government, but I think this is one we're gonna lose. Our military is already exhausted and broken. We better unhook our star from the Star of David quick.
Russia and China have vetoed two Security Council resolutions that threatened sanctions against Syria. Russia has refused to support any move that could lead to foreign intervention in Syria, Moscow’s last significant ally in the Middle East.
Yeah, and they also learned their lesson from Libya when they gave NATO permission for a no-fly zone and NATO turned around and flattened the place.
The United States and its allies have shown little appetite for getting involved in another Arab nation in turmoil.
I view that sentence as crap deception from my war-promoting paper. Their intelligence agency assets and agents are the ones causing the turmoil!!
There also is a real concern of a spillover effect for other countries in the region.
Already has. Ask Lebanon.
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You can already see the alliances, can't you? It's going to be EUSrael against the SCO.
"US aims to pressure Russia in criticism of Syrian helicopter shipments; Damascus says besieged village ‘cleansed’ of rebels" by Andrew E. Kramer and Eric Schmitt | New York Times, June 14, 2012
WASHINGTON - When Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton accused Russia on Tuesday of shipping attack helicopters to Syria that would “escalate the conflict quite dramatically,’’ it was the Obama administration’s sharpest criticism yet of Russia’s support for the Syrian government.
What Clinton did not say, however, was whether the aircraft were new shipments or, as US officials say is more likely, helicopters that Syria had sent to Russia a few months ago for routine repairs and refurbishing, and which were now about to be returned. “She put a little spin on it to put the Russians in a difficult position,’’ said one senior Defense Department official.
Oh, that's nice. The top U.S. diplomat is telling lies to manipulate people so they can make war easier. Un-flippin-believable. And I thought Condi Rice was an embarrassment! What was she, drunk?
Clinton’s criticism about the helicopters, administration officials said, is part of a calculated effort to raise the pressure on Russia to abandon President Bashar Assad, its main ally in the Middle East.
I am so sick of the manipulative war pigs, I really am.
Heck, we are supplying weapons to the Syrian rebels.
Lavrov, during a visit to Iran, repeated Russia’s insistence that it is not supplying Damascus with weapons to be used in a civil war.
Everyone knows what is coming, readers -- and then the Jew World Order media can declare an official beginning to the WWIII we are in already.
US officials have warned the Russians that Assad’s exit is inevitable and that if Russia wants to preserve its influence in Syria, it needs to be part of the effort to arrange a political transition.
Oh, WARNED 'EM, did they? The arrogance of empire is astounding.
If Russia is viewed as complicit in the Assad government’s attack on its own people, these officials said, it would be shunned by any new Syrian government.
It's REGIME CHANGE -- just as we have been saying all along.
Administration officials declined to give details about the helicopters, saying the information was classified. But White House and intelligence officials have backed up the substance of Clinton’s comments. Some officials said that, new or refurbished, the helicopters were equally deadly when turned against the civilian population.
I expected better out of this White House, I really did.
A single Russian state-owned arms monopoly, Rosoboronexport, handles all or nearly all formal weapons exports, including helicopters produced by a variety of enterprises in Russia....
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Related:
"Anti-Assad activists also reported the extensive use of Russian-made helicopter gunships in the siege.... siege.... massacre.... mass killings.... peaceful political protest."
Not to vague for you, is it?
"Russian exporter sending missile system to Syria" by Andrew E. Kramer | New York Times, June 16, 2012
MOSCOW - Russia’s chief arms exporter said Friday that his company was shipping advanced defensive missile systems to Syria that could be used to shoot down airplanes or sink ships if the United States or other Western nations try to intervene to halt the violence there....
I love that last bit of media contortion, as if introducing more violence into the situation is going to help halt the violence.
Anatoly P. Isaykin’s disclosures carried greater symbolic import than military significance.
Yeah, it will be a cakewalk, 'murkn!
They contributed to a cold war chill that has been settling over relations between Washington and Moscow....
Syria is the line in the sand against the New World Order.
Alexander Golts, an independent military analyst in Moscow, said the Russians’ discussion of defensive weapons shipments “undoubtedly’’ serves as a warning to countries contemplating an intervention.
And I'm sitting here typing and thinking CAN THEY MAKE IT ANY CLEARER?
Throughout the crisis, Russia has insisted that all its arms sales to the isolated government of Bashar Assad have been defensive in nature and were not being used in the Syrian leader’s vicious campaign to suppress the opposition.
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Also see: UN observers in Syria attacked by crowds, shot at
Syria observer chief says violence derails mission
UN observers in Syria suspend activities
Syrians stream into Jordan fleeing violence
Ooooh, a Globe online exclusive!
Next Day Update:
UN suspends monitoring in Syria amid continued violence
Syrians stream into Jordan fleeing violence
That must be the Sunday Globe Special printed version.
Monday adder: UN demands evacuation of Syrian civilians in Homs
