5 days ago
AFP
..."The Syrian government (click here) continues to put its energy into excuses, instead of actions," the US representative in the OPCW, Robert Mikulak, charged on Friday.
The watchdog's executive council is to meet again early next month in a bid to agree a response to the slippage in the timetable.
Damascus signed on to the deal to avert the threat of US military strikes following deadly chemical attacks outside Damascus last August that the West blamed on President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
The plan calls for the chemicals to be taken from Syria's main port Latakia under Western escort to a US vessel which will break them down using hydrolysis, a process expected to take 90 days.
Putin and McCain have a great deal in common. Putin has no legitimate government in the Crimea and McCain has none in Syria; yet they keep pretending they have a right to the claims they make.
March 03, 2014
The ministry, in remarks reported by the state news agency SANA, said Ban’s comments were “regrettable,” adding he should’ve addressed the roots of the Syrian conflict by pushing for the implementation of UN resolutions on eradicating terrorism....
Meet the Syrian National Coalition of Syrian Revolution and Opposition Forces. I am sure they are all very nice people,the only problem is they can't seem to get the rebels to follow them. I am sure McCain was happy to meet the men with guns that oppose Bashar al-Assad, but, they have no cohesive leadership and it is increasingly impossible to bring about a shared government if they can't guarantee the civil war will stop once the government is in place. That is a problem.
McCain's idea is to continue to lie to the American people about the strength and determination of the Syrian Opposition and send guns to people that will most probably sell them to free lancing rebels.
If the Syrian Opposition Coalition is in control of the rebels, they need to initiate a cease fire and prove their leadership.
The truth of the matter is, Assad's Syria is a failed state and there is no replacement for him and no cohesive answer. Russia is just as delusional as McCain in rearming Assad. Russia is backing genocide.
According to Coalition (click here) bylaws, a political committee is elected upon the election of new president of the Coalition. The Political Committee is comprised of 19 individuals which include: the president, vice presidents, secretary-general; the remaining members are members that receive majority votes in a secret-ballot election conducted by the General Authority....
Senator McCain, there is no there there.
By DIAA HADID
Associated Press
Feb 17, 2014 4:24 AM CST in Politics
BEIRUT (AP) — The coalition of Syrian opposition groups (click here) in exile announced they appointed a new army chief on Monday, following a year of seeing their influence fade in Syria.
The Western-backed Syrian National Coalition said was appointing Brigadier Abdul-Ilah al-Bashir to head the Free Syrian Army. It cited specifically an embarrassing raid on their weapons warehouse by rival rebels last year as a reason for the change.
Brig. al-Bashir replaces Gen. Salim Idris, seen as a secular-leaning moderate.
In a statement, the coalition said they hoped al-Bashir would strengthen the role of the FSA, "one of the most important tools of the Syrian revolution in facing a regime of death, terrorism and destruction."
The switch comes after a series of so-far failed talks in Switzerland between officials loyal to President Bashar Assad and exiled opposition activists to try to resolve the three-year war....
"...erupting into sectarian violence...the Free Syrian Army need weapons and heavy weapons to counter tanks and aircraft. They need a no fly zone...and on and on and on..." And, of course there is going to be the end of the world along with the failure of the Free Syrian Army.
This is fear mongering without any sincere outcomes that actually matter. Senator McCain's idea of arming rebels with sophisticated concepts of war will only cause more death. The USA Neocon's war program has not changed a thing in Iraq or Afghanistan. The USA could go on for generations in educating nationals to be soldiers and all that would result is a larger national deficit. It is unfortunate the GOP has hung it's hat on war, because they aren't good at it.
USA aggression has solved nothing. It has achieved enormous deaths of innocent people. The problem is the people's leadership.
...Commenting on Nasrallah's speech, (click here) a source close to Hezbollah told Al-Monitor that the Palestinian cause is no longer a priority for the Arab people and their governments in light of the chaos caused by the repercussions of the so-called Arab Spring. According to him, the region's people and regimes are concerned with power and the security, political and economic implications of the changes that have and are taking place....
Okay, so they are worried about their security and economies. Then why the bombings at all?
On 25 May 2013, Nasrallah announced that Hezbollah is fighting in the Syrian Civil War against Islamic extremists and "pledged that his group will not allow Syrian militants to control areas that border Lebanon"
Hezbollah is the defacto military of Assad. Always has been. So, this is the power vacuum that continues to exist in the Middle East. Exampled by Nasrallah if they can't control the world then no one else will either.
Arming a diffuse number of rebel groups is not going to work. Hezbollah is killing people to prevent any organization of rebel forces. There goes McCain's war and it's success. Won't happen and the arms sent to the region will end up in the wrong hands and cause more deaths than it will prevent.
Establishing a No Fly Zone might speed the chemical weapons along. That might be. But, in order to end the Syrian Civil War the rhetoric needs to stop because it provides Nasrullah a reason to send Hezbollah to Lebanon's border and beyond to kill people.
If the wars of American Neocons will result in more deaths without end, there is absolutely no reason to even discuss it.
Senator McCain forgets that the reason "The Surge" so called worked is because it killed more people. The Surge resulted because former President Bush had no strategy and his war in Iraq had failed to bring about a result to justify the presence of the USA military. The Surge was a desperate political maneuver and when carried out killed many. The USA should not be in the business of killing, the world manages well without us.
AFP
..."The Syrian government (click here) continues to put its energy into excuses, instead of actions," the US representative in the OPCW, Robert Mikulak, charged on Friday.
The watchdog's executive council is to meet again early next month in a bid to agree a response to the slippage in the timetable.
Damascus signed on to the deal to avert the threat of US military strikes following deadly chemical attacks outside Damascus last August that the West blamed on President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
The plan calls for the chemicals to be taken from Syria's main port Latakia under Western escort to a US vessel which will break them down using hydrolysis, a process expected to take 90 days.
Putin and McCain have a great deal in common. Putin has no legitimate government in the Crimea and McCain has none in Syria; yet they keep pretending they have a right to the claims they make.
March 03, 2014
Syria criticized (click here) United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accusing him of taking sides in
the country’s three-year civil war.
The Foreign Ministry statement came after Ban today
appeared to pin more of the blame for failed peace talks that
began in January on the delegation of President Bashar al-Assad.
The two parties, “particularly” government representatives,
“have not been constructively engaging in the dialogue,” Ban
said in Geneva. The ministry, in remarks reported by the state news agency SANA, said Ban’s comments were “regrettable,” adding he should’ve addressed the roots of the Syrian conflict by pushing for the implementation of UN resolutions on eradicating terrorism....
Meet the Syrian National Coalition of Syrian Revolution and Opposition Forces. I am sure they are all very nice people,the only problem is they can't seem to get the rebels to follow them. I am sure McCain was happy to meet the men with guns that oppose Bashar al-Assad, but, they have no cohesive leadership and it is increasingly impossible to bring about a shared government if they can't guarantee the civil war will stop once the government is in place. That is a problem.
McCain's idea is to continue to lie to the American people about the strength and determination of the Syrian Opposition and send guns to people that will most probably sell them to free lancing rebels.
If the Syrian Opposition Coalition is in control of the rebels, they need to initiate a cease fire and prove their leadership.
The truth of the matter is, Assad's Syria is a failed state and there is no replacement for him and no cohesive answer. Russia is just as delusional as McCain in rearming Assad. Russia is backing genocide.
According to Coalition (click here) bylaws, a political committee is elected upon the election of new president of the Coalition. The Political Committee is comprised of 19 individuals which include: the president, vice presidents, secretary-general; the remaining members are members that receive majority votes in a secret-ballot election conducted by the General Authority....
Senator McCain, there is no there there.
By DIAA HADID
Associated Press
Feb 17, 2014 4:24 AM CST in Politics
BEIRUT (AP) — The coalition of Syrian opposition groups (click here) in exile announced they appointed a new army chief on Monday, following a year of seeing their influence fade in Syria.
The Western-backed Syrian National Coalition said was appointing Brigadier Abdul-Ilah al-Bashir to head the Free Syrian Army. It cited specifically an embarrassing raid on their weapons warehouse by rival rebels last year as a reason for the change.
Brig. al-Bashir replaces Gen. Salim Idris, seen as a secular-leaning moderate.
In a statement, the coalition said they hoped al-Bashir would strengthen the role of the FSA, "one of the most important tools of the Syrian revolution in facing a regime of death, terrorism and destruction."
The switch comes after a series of so-far failed talks in Switzerland between officials loyal to President Bashar Assad and exiled opposition activists to try to resolve the three-year war....
"...erupting into sectarian violence...the Free Syrian Army need weapons and heavy weapons to counter tanks and aircraft. They need a no fly zone...and on and on and on..." And, of course there is going to be the end of the world along with the failure of the Free Syrian Army.
This is fear mongering without any sincere outcomes that actually matter. Senator McCain's idea of arming rebels with sophisticated concepts of war will only cause more death. The USA Neocon's war program has not changed a thing in Iraq or Afghanistan. The USA could go on for generations in educating nationals to be soldiers and all that would result is a larger national deficit. It is unfortunate the GOP has hung it's hat on war, because they aren't good at it.
USA aggression has solved nothing. It has achieved enormous deaths of innocent people. The problem is the people's leadership.
...Commenting on Nasrallah's speech, (click here) a source close to Hezbollah told Al-Monitor that the Palestinian cause is no longer a priority for the Arab people and their governments in light of the chaos caused by the repercussions of the so-called Arab Spring. According to him, the region's people and regimes are concerned with power and the security, political and economic implications of the changes that have and are taking place....
Okay, so they are worried about their security and economies. Then why the bombings at all?
On 25 May 2013, Nasrallah announced that Hezbollah is fighting in the Syrian Civil War against Islamic extremists and "pledged that his group will not allow Syrian militants to control areas that border Lebanon"
Hezbollah is the defacto military of Assad. Always has been. So, this is the power vacuum that continues to exist in the Middle East. Exampled by Nasrallah if they can't control the world then no one else will either.
Arming a diffuse number of rebel groups is not going to work. Hezbollah is killing people to prevent any organization of rebel forces. There goes McCain's war and it's success. Won't happen and the arms sent to the region will end up in the wrong hands and cause more deaths than it will prevent.
Establishing a No Fly Zone might speed the chemical weapons along. That might be. But, in order to end the Syrian Civil War the rhetoric needs to stop because it provides Nasrullah a reason to send Hezbollah to Lebanon's border and beyond to kill people.
If the wars of American Neocons will result in more deaths without end, there is absolutely no reason to even discuss it.
Senator McCain forgets that the reason "The Surge" so called worked is because it killed more people. The Surge resulted because former President Bush had no strategy and his war in Iraq had failed to bring about a result to justify the presence of the USA military. The Surge was a desperate political maneuver and when carried out killed many. The USA should not be in the business of killing, the world manages well without us.
