Kerry: US Planning ‘New Options’ for Move Against Syria’s Assad
Goal Is to Convince Assad Defeat Is Inevitable
Secretary of State John Kerry says that he and the rest of the State Department are hard at work developing “new options” for the Obama Administration to use in a move against the Assad government in Syria.
Kerry says that he expects to have new recommendations when he returns from his current trip abroad to follow up on President Obama’s State of the Union pledge to “keep the pressure” on Assad.
The goal at present for the administration is to convince Assad that defeat is inevitable in the hopes that he will voluntarily resign afterwards. The US has been predicting Assad’s imminent fall, but the Syrian civil war has remained stalemated.
State Department officials went on to insist that Kerry would under no circumstances use his long-standing friendship with Assad to try to broker a direct meeting, with spokeswoman Victoria Nuland insisting that Kerry’s relationship with Assad was “well before” the current civil war.
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mojo
February 13th, 2013 at 9:33 pm
What plan…, ? To sale more ketchup in Syria…? He just added 52 million dollars to his wealth in 2012.., when is enough is enough for these people.., leave the Syrian people alone.., leave the people in Middle East alone.., Yankee go home you have don no good for any nation in this world and doing good for any nation is not your intentions.., Yankee go home and take your bull dogs with you. Sooner or later you will see the flags of Saudi Arabia all over the country then US flags.., and they are not shay showing it driving in their German made SUVs.
Ben_C
February 13th, 2013 at 9:43 pm
'Proxy war' Ditz…it's a 'proxy war'….
So…John Kerry is now tasked to come up with "new options" for the proxy war of terror being waged by the US and associated 'allies' against Syria? Surprise, surprise…
Obviously the mercenary terrorists simply aren't getting it done on their own…now are they Ditz? But in reality, it was always known by any serious person the mercenary terrorists simply couldn't topple the "Assad regime" (you'd have to be a compete idiot to believe they could).
The Obama Administration, however, clearly miscalculated the "international support" Assad has been able to maintain which has deterred direct military action by NATO forces up until this point… Israel obviously jumped the gun and bombed, but that was an isolated incident.
Augustbrhm
February 14th, 2013 at 2:02 am
Ben and Mojo are quite correct dont mess with america and her zionist proxy if you want to live.
Oso Politico
February 14th, 2013 at 2:07 am
Kerry is just another Clinton, and looks about as stupid as she does, too.
Anonymous
February 14th, 2013 at 6:17 am
America is destroying every Muslim country they encounter. Why would any Muslim cooperate with them?
paulBass
February 14th, 2013 at 9:14 am
we checked under the table and found that some of the options had fallen off
Winston Smith
February 14th, 2013 at 3:16 pm
So Kerry's Liberalism lasted just as long as he got through the door of the State Department building.
The Plan has just been made public.
The way Covert Operations are intended to end – with the victim state being forced into a "peace conference" in this case a senate for "Dialogue" and UN run elections
The Power-Elite specialise in stealing elections in other people's countries.
Why do moslims support them – because the fundamentalist Jihadists ate American intelligence assets, they are "their" Jihadists.
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klyde
February 14th, 2013 at 6:17 pm
Obama is further proof that when you vote for the lesser of two evils you're still voting for evil.