UK Prime Minister David Cameron says he would support offering Syrian President Bashar al-Assad safe passage out of Syria if it meant he would step down.
Many leaders in the US and its top allies have so far refrained from talking about offering Assad safe passage. Politically, it is seen as a weak posture that proposes safe haven for a dictator with blood on his hands.
Cameron said the international community should consider anything “to get that man out of the country,” adding that “if he wants to leave…that could be arranged.”
The status of the Syrian conflict is essentially that it is a bloody stalemate between the remaining Assad regime and the armed rebel opposition, supported primarily by the US, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey.
Riyad Hijab, Syria’s recently defected prime minister, told the Daily Telegraph that despite telling Assad “he needed to find a political solution to the crisis,” he “categorically refused.”
“Bashar really thinks that he can settle this militarily,” Hijab said.
This calculation, if true, is probably based in part on the understanding that unless he retains power and quells the rebellion, he will either be killed or face trial at the International Criminal Court at The Hague.
In fact, Amnesty International responded to Cameron saying that Assad would only agree to a safe passage deal if he was granted immunity.
“David Cameron should be supporting efforts to ensure that [Assad] faces justice, ideally at the International Criminal Court at The Hague,” Amnesty said in a statement.
I don't think Assad will be turning the Nation of Syria over to the suicide car-bomber, mercenary, terrorists who haven't even demonstrated the ability to put together and articulate a cohesive, and unified, 'political' "voice" and 'organization'; much less hold one together…much less organize, coordinate, and hold together, a cohesive 'effort' of even various small "militias" consisting of armed 'terrorists' for an extended period of time; much less run, and hold together, an actual Nation and cater to the various "domestic' and 'civil' "issues" of the "Syrian People"…
Doing so would not only be suicide, it would be completely 'irresponsible' and 'immoral'…
How about "safe passage" for Mr. Cameron? One wonders if the British electorate would support him more than the Syrian people have supported Assad if the Brits were to be subjected to the type of crisis the Syrians have been forced to endure. Maybe he could start with a sleepover at the Embassy of Ecuador, though one suspects he would be a "doubtful", if not thoroughly unwelcome guest.
David Camoron, who is a devoted Zionist BTW, is right. Even thinking of such an offer IS a sign of weakness on his, israels and USA´s part (in that order). Full of hubris after turning Libya into a AFRICOM/ NATO/Al-Qaeda stronghold, someone should have told him Syria was never going to be a piece of cake. Now he proves that. Turkey can´t finish their filthy work, the Syrians are resilient and Camoron is clueless….
Cameron should piss off and mind his own rotten business. Things are bad enough in the UK, and it's not because of Syria.
Tell Kamaron shut up and fu*k off…
A hundred years ago England talked thousand of arabs into attacking the Turks. The Turks had time and time again destroyed british military. Galopli saw the destruction of 59,000 australians in a week. churchill who proposed the attack went into hiding. The british promised a homeland to the arabs then gave the arabs the great betrayal and put a homeland for the jews in the land promised to the arabs.
England should accept the disaster that they created in the middle east. Why would any arab trust anyone associated with England?
A hundred years ago England talked thousand of arabs into attacking the Turks. The Turks had time and time again destroyed british military. Galopli saw the destruction of 59,000 australians in a week. churchill who proposed the attack went into hiding. The british promised a homeland to the arabs then gave the arabs the great betrayal and put a homeland for the jews in the land promised to the arabs.
Look: this man just visited the gulf stats wanting to sell of his weapon, noe he is back saying what his been demanded to say before any deal goes through, he and governments like his, from Sweden to England and other part of Europe are after one thing and one thing only, 1- crest wars, 2- kissing the hands of Saudis and other tyranni for their investments in europe, especialy the manifacturing of terrorism in their investment of mosuqs, 3- sell of their weapons to these imbeciles 4- helping the growth of vulture capitalism against all and any kind of functioning democracy, the gulf states helping a lot the Neo Liberal Fasicim to grow, they don't mind to see a new dictatorial regimes all over Europe and USA for that matter whom would protect their tyranni and that's what they do.
These fools at Amnesty (for amnesia) International should tell their patrons in the west to face the International Court of Justice. Of course they won't do it because they don't have the guts to do that. Instead they prefer to pick on small countries, and that way AI appears to care for human rights. Hey AI, tell Obama, Cameron, Hollande, Netanyahu, Erdogan and all the other murderers the truth in their faces. Write a report detailing all their exploits and how their actions produce not 30000 deaths but millions all over the world. Tell them that their hands are deep in blood. You can't? Then STFU!
How about "safe passage" for Assange to leave the country? Could that be arranged?
Safe passage to the undertaker if I understand the UK's past performance.
Why don't you post my comment?
'Safe passage'? – a la Gaddafi no doubt. Dead men tell no embarrassing tales. Perhaps Cameron should focus on dealing with the child abusers in his own party and other groups within the UK government elite.