Russia on Friday rejected renewed calls to set up safe zones and no-fly zones in Syria’s border areas after the United States said it was ready to begin talks to consider the move.
“You have to solve citizen security issues using methods put in practice by international humanitarian law,” Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said, skeptical that the move would give the US and its allies an opportunity to intervene militarily in Syria.
“But if you try to create no-fly zones and safety zones for military purposes by citing an international crisis — this is unacceptable,” he said.
So-called safe zones are simply not a viable option. “Humanitarian corridors,” explained Marc Lynch of George Washington University in testimony before a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee, ”would be extremely difficult to protect, and could create a new refugee crisis if desperate civilians rush into designated safe zones or neighboring countries.”
Safe areas might also require airpower in some form, but Assad’s “anti-aircraft capabilities are located in or near urban areas, which means that significant civilian casualties could result from any attempt to eliminate them.” Lynch said. ”Creating and protecting a safe area in Syria would therefore require a significant and lengthy investment of troops and resources, and would not likely hasten Assad’s collapse.”
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the US is working with Turkey and may be preparing to “to have a very intensive operational planning” discussions during which they could deliberate further moves, possibly no-fly zones. Although couched in language of humanitarian intervention, such a move would end up facilitating an all-out war in Syria to cripple the Assad government.
Amazing how all these so called experts have been brainwashed into believing the only outcome is the fall of the established Assad government.
Whatever happened to the concept of elections.
There is only one solution. That is the media to stop edging on the rebels with false hope and the UN and US to get proactive in preventing groups within Syria obtaining weapons.
Or we could just mind our own damn business.
No matter what these NATO and what is called the US democratic government do, Syria will not be invaded, get the idea that people of Syria changing their mind about their government and the way that it has done its job for modernization of the country improving the Syrian life, get this idea out of your mind that one day French falsified social democracy or for that matter the English Liberal fascism or the Swedish Neo Fascist government have their foot in Syrian territory dictating for the Syrian people how to live their life, the colonial days of French and English are over, the militarism regime of America is about to collapse.
This war, as we said from day one, is going to be a long one, it might brake the Syrian economy but it will not brake the will of the Syrian people to defeat these barbarians. Meantime, the same faith be upon NATO and US economic Vulture system, meanwhile the USA and countries in Europe will be more dependent on the Saudis and UAE oil import, meanwhile US and EU will never ever get what they have planed for the Syrians people wanting to slave them, these governments want to establish a religious fundamentalism system with laws from the age of the cave man in 2012 and EU and US is helping them with what thy want.
The double language and double face of these democrats and liberals is about dividing people by their religious letting them fight each others while they steal the peoples wealth from Libya to rest of the world. The double language of these people is about lies where in one hand they say that they have nothing to do with what is the Syrian war but in the other hand wanting to impose the No Fly Zone for Humanitarian reasons, that was said before Iraq invasion, again it was said before Libya invasion and now they are playing the same “humanitarian” care again.
You want to have a humanitarian action taken by you, stop giving all that arms to Saudis and UAE whom are giving it to these bandits to fight the Syrian people, you want your trick in “Humanitarian action” to work tell your slaves as Turkish government to stop training these bandits, yo want your Humanitarian wording to become a worthy of the word, stop playing games with peoples life, stop creating these wars and above all start performing as a democrat.., then and only then you have done
a humanitarian work.
"Michelle and I extend our warmest wishes to Muslim communities in the United States and around the world as they celebrate Eid al-Fitr," Obama said in a statement released by the White House.
"For Muslims, Ramadan has been a time of fasting, prayer and spiritual renewal. These past four weeks have also been a time to serve the less fortunate — a reminder of the obligations that people of all faiths have to each other.” In US and in terms of the language, the less fortunate means the 99% and 25 millions who don’t have a job and cannot find it and 50 millions without any insurance, the almost 3 million people in jail and Etc. and Etc.
Last time I checked, Assad is still standing and well in control of Syria… How long has this 'conflict' lasted? Oh no…let's get Jason Ditz's ''interpretation' of the "stalemate" (lol….).
Anywho… He (Assad that is) has made a complete ass out of a lot of self-described "experts"… Perhaps he's a lot smarter than some, perhaps many, think–he's defiantly 'smarter' than the self-described "experts" who had expected his defeat long before now, now, or even in the near future.
I'm really done 'discussing' this 'issue' with morons…
People who don't understand reality, and the 'real world', so they can 'work out at the gym' and/or bloviate about their self-perceived self-importance, never will…
It is what it is….
So-called "liberals" over at the Huffington Post message board are bitching about Putin being a "menace" because he surpresses dissent at home and won't allow Obama and friends to decimate Syria. I find these humanitarian liberals every bit as odious, vile and unpleasant as their far more honest right-wing counterparts. The Huffpo crowd cloaks thier war-mongering in humanitarian rhetoric which must be heard to be believed.
Sometimes I think the people in this country are complete idiots.
The HuffPo crowd are Zionists first and everything else LAST.
Jesus Christ referred to these types as HYPOCRITES, which they truly are. As far as Vladimir Putin goes, he IS the President of Russia – a SOVEREIGN STATE, in which he was ELECTED. You tell these liberal hypocrites, R. C.; you're absolutely right.
In addition, the hypocritical Obama Regime is trying to dictate policy to the rest of the world vis-a-vis the Syrian Regime of Bassar Assad. Well, We the People have news for him, Hillary Clinton, and Leon Panetta with regard to any intervention in Syria's current situation: GET OUT and STAY OUT. The Syrian people must be allowed to solve their own problems. How would Americans feel if the tables were reversed, and foreign busybodies with military bases scattered worldwide calling for "No-Fly Zones" inside the US and threatening war? How would the Obama Regime feel? Quite outraged, I'd say, and justifiably so.
What's surprisingly fantastic, is that I read the English language Russian press daily and it's chalk full of dissent against Putin – more so than you see in the USA against Obama! It's simply astonishing for the western MSM to claim that dissent is crushed in Russia when we saw the spectacle of thousands of protesters in Moscow marching against Putin with releatively few arrests – especially when compared to the west. The reason why there is so much myopic attention on Russia is because they are independent players in the global arena who the US and its allies can't bomb into submission, so instead, we get stories like the '"Pu**y Riot" faisco, a case of random hooliganism blown up to epic international proportions with denunciations of Russia from western goverments – many of whom have their own hand in crushing "dissent" in their own respective countries.
How this will help Russia cooperate with the west is anyone's guess.
Hitlary Clinton representing "Axis of TRUTH Evil" on this planet – Internacional Zionism with leading regimes, US "Knesset" and Israels Knesset….planing expansion of democracy, or another round of destruction and horrors of wars. Very profitable bussines ending will increase US "main" export
articles ": New military bases, weapons and endless bloodbaths"…everything Mankind neads!!!
US/Israel "joint venture bussines" cant be challenged – they mastered Bussines of murder, stealing and lies…
Internacional Zionism is trully main part of "Visible satanic organization on Earth" in last days…
peter czech
If Bashar al ASSAD is still around is because of the Russians and Chinese Veto at the UN.
If Palestinians are still under Occupation it is because of the US veto.
Why do the UNSC have to have VETOS,I thought all countries are EQUALS / Democratic.
So the UNSC still do have TWO classes of members ,— The Rich and Powerful &&& The Poor and Weak.
Doesn't it time to remodel this United Nations institution, in one way or the OTHER?????
As Libya proved, "No-Fly Zones" is Orwellian-speak for bombing infrastructure and nearby civilians.
No repeat of Libya, thank you Russia to standing up to Hypocrisy