Clinton Bashes Russia’s Syria Peace Plan
'No Point in Passing Resolution,' Clinton Insists
Russian officials are hoping to see the UN Security Council agree soon to a new peace resolution for Syria, based on a plan negotiated in Geneva in June. If Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has her way, it won’t even come up for a vote.
“There is no point to passing a resolution,” Clinton insisted, saying the US would only agree to the deal if it involved UN ‘consequences for non-compliance’ on the regime, something the Russian resolution does not do.
The Geneva Plan sought the end of the ongoing civil war, but US officials interpreted the deal entirely different from Russians, saying it “required” Syrian President Bashar Assad to immediately resign.
After the way NATO escalated the Libya “no-fly zone,” any “consequences” in a resolution are certain to be rejected by Russia, which is concerned that the US will try to reimagine any such resolution as an authorization to invade, and has demanded every resolution passed explicitly rule out invasion.
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mojo
September 9th, 2012 at 9:50 pm
Look people: this is no longer a question based on Geneva or NY or Moscow or Teheran or any other city in this world, simply is a question of a defeat and lost of credibility of US states department regarding its engagement in Syria, that is to say, if such trust ever existed or the state department credibility was in a good conditions to begin with.
There has been so many wars for last 60 years conducted, orchestrated by US and England that the system forced to ask Swedish-Danish NEO Liberal fascism to chip in, which in reality means that situation is that bad. In another word, vulture capitalism and its proxies, as Sweden, France, German, England and others are either to retreat from war mongering attitude or continue with it there and at home austerities making the life of people more difficult as it is, They been losing for last 60 years so they need to gain at home by enforcing their inhumane social economic laws to get paid for their mistaks, the irony is that they never learn.
MoT
September 9th, 2012 at 10:22 pm
The bald-faced conceit and arrogance by Clinton and her boot-licking lackeys is disgusting.
CanuckBC
September 9th, 2012 at 10:36 pm
US officials are lying again. In Geneva Plan all sides agreed there is a need for reconciliation in Syria and building a government of unity. Russians and Chinese insisted that only Syrian people can decide. Americans knowing that most of "opposition" are foreign fighters are afraid of letting Syrians to decide, since most of opposition would have no voice in general elections. Clinton clearly does not believe that Syrians can decide as Clinton and probably Israel want .
persnipoles
September 9th, 2012 at 10:58 pm
When 'the US' imposes ‘consequences for non-compliance’ for a country on it's hit list, it will spread fantasies of that country's 'non-compliance' so as to impose those 'consequences' and more. A sovereign government might as well ignore US imposed rules, the results will be the same. They're generating foreign rebellions now, and it's disgusting that they're still pretending to be in a 'dialogue' with anyone.
davidgrayling
September 10th, 2012 at 12:33 am
American dialogue consists of the following: er, ah, mmmmmm, cough, gesture with thumb, sighing, shouting, hissing, spitting, gesture with one finger, smashing the table, kicking wildly, snoring, farting, glaring, staring, and teeth-grinding. Verbal communication is not allowed!
Clinton excels at these activities and can even get her eyes to look demented either singly or in unison!
Yonatan
September 10th, 2012 at 12:46 am
Shorter Clinton: we don't want no stinkin' peace.
Mark Thomason
September 10th, 2012 at 4:35 am
This proposal would condemn what the US and friends are doing equally with Assad.
The US would condemn Assad for resisting what it is doing.
That is the real confrontation.
Hillary's seeks to use this to shoehorn in a UN authorization for US force, which is the exact opposite of Russia's intent in offering it.
Those are the two reasons why it will go nowhere.
peter vojta
September 10th, 2012 at 5:26 am
Oh Hillary, trying so hard!!!
Hitlary wants war so badly. As a "woman and mother", she is desparate to see some childern dying again…peter czech
★FALCON★
September 10th, 2012 at 6:05 am
Russia's plan is to continue the Assad regime while the Obama / Clinton plan is to install the Al-Qaida Muslim Brotherhood and terrorize the entire region with a consolidated Sharia Super-State.
I see a lose / lose for everyone involved.
Ben_C
September 10th, 2012 at 6:31 am
No Falcon…it is not… You, along with Jason Ditz, are speaking out of ignorance… Why don't you actually READ the plan before commenting on it?
★FALCON★
September 10th, 2012 at 6:37 am
Regardless, that is indeed the plan. Sticking your fingers in your ears won't solve this problem.
Ben_C
September 10th, 2012 at 8:03 am
I'm not quite sure what you're talking about Falcon…be that as it may, what is your proposal for the "Syrian People"–since you seem to think you "know what's best"….?
ML3
September 10th, 2012 at 9:11 am
Clinton bashes the peace plan for not being sufficiently war-like.
Johnny_Warbucks
September 10th, 2012 at 2:15 pm
Every time that woman opens her piehole sewers across the land smell like roses in comparison to what comes out of it.