The answer to Syria's problems are not black and white, right and wrong, left or right; they are very complicated. The dynamics in Syria play throughout the Middle East on some scale. The issue is the ethnicities have decided they don't have to live peacefully with each other. Partly to blame is the former Iranian President Ahmadinejad. The other party in escalating hatred in these nations is the Former President of the USA, George Bush. The hate mongering started this tipping point and it hasn't ended while radical holy men take sides.
By ANNE GEARAN and LOVEDAY MORRIS
Washington Post
By ANNE GEARAN and LOVEDAY MORRIS
Washington Post
Saturday, February 15, 2014
(Published in print: Sunday, February 16, 2014)
(Published in print: Sunday, February 16, 2014)
U.N.-sponsored peace talks for Syria (click here) ended at an impasse yesterday over the future of President Bashar Assad,
as the Obama administration lashed out in frustration at Russia,
accusing it of prolonging the conflict.
“They can’t have it both ways,” a senior
Obama administration official said of Russia, which is Assad’s principal
international backer but also supported the U.S. idea of inviting both
sides to the negotiations. Russia can’t say it wants that peaceful
approach and a “happy Olympics,” while it is also “part and parcel of
supporting this regime as it kills people in the most brutal way,” the
official said.
The official spoke on the condition of
anonymity to describe the agenda for an unusual meeting yesterday in
California between President Obama and Jordan’s King Abdullah II, at
which the two leaders discussed the failing international efforts to
broker peace and ease desperate conditions in Syria.
Abdullah requested the meeting, partly to
seek additional U.S. help for coping with an overwhelming flow of
refugees. His small, Western-oriented nation is deeply uneasy about the
near collapse of Syria and the spread of Islamic militancy in the
vacuum.
Seizing on Russia’s role as host of the
Winter Olympics in Sochi, the official said that country was being
disingenuous in its approach to the conflict in Syria, where three years
of violence has claimed 140,000 lives....
The United Nations has the best path forward and to that end the world needs to pay attention, for escalation in Syria will light up the entire region. Europe alone doesn't need that and neither does Russia.
Speaking of Russia, I do recall they are hosting the Olympics right now and have security on high alert; oddly US Senator McCain has no appreciation for that. More dead Americans Senator McCain? Is that your plans?
Foreign Minister Lavrov has among the longest official history with all parties involved with Syria. He has an interesting view of life as a senior member of Russian society.
2014 is full of historic symbolism. (click here) We will celebrate 25 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, 75 years since the beginning of the Second World War and 100 years since the beginning of the First World War. You might think that having experienced the severest trials during the last century and having learnt a lot from its tragic mistakes, today’s European continent would be an example of political wisdom for other regions, as they attempt to get out of the vortex of conflicts and settle down to a course of development and welfare....
Now it seems to me, albeit a distant observer, that Foreign Minister Lavrov has been making in roads throughout the Syria issue although unnoticed. I would think the other members of the peace process for Syria would be finding the progress made and a way to build on it.
The very last thing the Syrian people need is more hate, more violence and certainly not more death. There is a path forward and I would EXPECT all parties to embrace it.
Right now in the Middle East the last word spoken should be war. The people again have to appreciate life and more than that; life in mutual respect of each other. When I look to the past it was then Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, now King, that had the best outlook for ethnic peace. He, a Sunni, would visit with President Assad, a Shi'ite. King Abdullah is not only the nation's leader, he is also a religious figure. He is very important man and a man of peace like others in the region.
February 17, 2014
by Michael Wilner
WASHINGTON – US President Barack Obama (click here) plans to offer King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia the assurance of alliance coordination on Syria policy during his trip to Riyadh next month.
The president’s trip, scheduled for late March, comes after a year of public contempt between Riyadh and Washington over each other’s mishandling of the Syrian crisis, now three years old and fostering extremist dangers to regional security, including to Saudi Arabia itself....
The United Nations has the best path forward and to that end the world needs to pay attention, for escalation in Syria will light up the entire region. Europe alone doesn't need that and neither does Russia.
Speaking of Russia, I do recall they are hosting the Olympics right now and have security on high alert; oddly US Senator McCain has no appreciation for that. More dead Americans Senator McCain? Is that your plans?
2014 is full of historic symbolism. (click here) We will celebrate 25 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, 75 years since the beginning of the Second World War and 100 years since the beginning of the First World War. You might think that having experienced the severest trials during the last century and having learnt a lot from its tragic mistakes, today’s European continent would be an example of political wisdom for other regions, as they attempt to get out of the vortex of conflicts and settle down to a course of development and welfare....
Now it seems to me, albeit a distant observer, that Foreign Minister Lavrov has been making in roads throughout the Syria issue although unnoticed. I would think the other members of the peace process for Syria would be finding the progress made and a way to build on it.
The very last thing the Syrian people need is more hate, more violence and certainly not more death. There is a path forward and I would EXPECT all parties to embrace it.
Right now in the Middle East the last word spoken should be war. The people again have to appreciate life and more than that; life in mutual respect of each other. When I look to the past it was then Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, now King, that had the best outlook for ethnic peace. He, a Sunni, would visit with President Assad, a Shi'ite. King Abdullah is not only the nation's leader, he is also a religious figure. He is very important man and a man of peace like others in the region.
February 17, 2014
by Michael Wilner
WASHINGTON – US President Barack Obama (click here) plans to offer King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia the assurance of alliance coordination on Syria policy during his trip to Riyadh next month.
The president’s trip, scheduled for late March, comes after a year of public contempt between Riyadh and Washington over each other’s mishandling of the Syrian crisis, now three years old and fostering extremist dangers to regional security, including to Saudi Arabia itself....
