US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power condemned Syria’s leaflets, urging civilians in rebel-held East Aleppo to flee and offering them safe passage and access to temporary shelters “chilling,” insisting that the civilians must never trust a government “that’s bombed & starved them.”
Syria’s military has increased its control over the area surrounding Aleppo recently, controlling all roads leading into the east. Eastern Aleppo is controlled mostly by al-Qaeda’s Nusra Front, with the Free Syrian Army (FSA) having a presence in two of the districts.
Power’s condemnation of leaflets urging civilians to evacuate, apart from being in keeping with condemning Syria for whatever they do, doesn’t make a lot of sense, since it exactly mirrors what Iraq has done in recovering cities from ISIS, trying to get as many civilians as possible out before using US airstrikes to pound the fighters within.
UN officials called on the fighters within Aleppo to also guarantee civilians the access to the corridors, and added that civilians couldn’t be forced to flee. Undersecretary-General Stephen O’Brien urged a weekly 58-hour humanitarian pause to allow aid into sieged areas nationwide.
My goodness. Does she want these people to stay in the city and being butchered by Deash, Al Nushra and the like.? Sadat is on the winning hand and they trust their government . America has blundered over and over again and are furious about Russin successes.
Sadat (the Egyptian leader) is dead, This is about Assad, the leader of Syria.
The woman is mad. She is parroting an insane line and cannot find another narrative.
The population there cannot wait to be liberated — and she wants them to stay. Her divorce from the reity is chilling. But even this article misses an important point. Safe corridors are established — and the militants will be held accountable if they try to prevent population from leaving. Also a corridor is created for militants. They can come out without weapons or turn weapons in. Some have already come out.
the american neo con ( israeli firsters ) government is mad, and these hypocritcs are sreaming to start a nuke ww3, that is how mad this is
I do not know how much freedom of speech our UN Ambassador has. On matters such as this does she need Obama’s approval?
If it’s “chilling”, just us it to freshen your Coke during the next bombing run!
And thank the good Lord the laser designator ain’t pointing at your roof.
But, the Turkish military just reminded us all that its not really a good thing to have to rely on that.
And under a Clinton II administration, this “humanitarian” will most likely be Sec State.
Can we all agree America doesn’t have a clue when it comes to the middle east. Had Obama followed the advice of tag team warmongers Lindsey Graham and John McCain our forces would be fighting along side rebel al Qaeda forces bent on taking over the Syrian government, the same al Qaeda blamed for 9-11. The same al Qaeda who treats women like sex slaves.
America has a very good ‘clue’. The problem is that if they told the American people what they are really trying to do, then the people would rise up in disgust and anger. So, they’ll lie to us, they’ll try to cover up what they are really doing, and if any of it leaks out they’ll blast it as enemy propaganda or claim that it was a mistake and in extreme cases they might pretend to punish some sergeant .
This is the way terrorists will know the rules of war and no need for terrorists to beheaded a child last week shame on for their atrocities act. Now it coming back and hunt them therefore the Syrian army will kill all the terrorists who kill innocent young boy for being a government support. They should be shame about that because the young does not had a good judgement.
Those terrorists beheading the kid last week were our terrorists (the Free Syrian army) – not ISIS or Al Nusra. They have already apologized for ‘making a mistake’.
The ‘mistake’ wasn’t killing the kid, that happens every day, it was getting the execution out on the western media and trying to blame it on ISIS.
American soldiers should joint forces with Syrian army forces to defeat terrorists.
Too late, we’ve already picked the wrong side. Johnny McCain shook hands with the terrorists and the US sent them money, The Saudis and Gulf States armed them. Their target was the Syrian Armed Forces. .
Too bad for great nation like the United States to side with people who execute children in daily bases.
She must be confusing Syria with Ukraine where the ‘safety corridor’ for trapped Ukrainian troops was returned into a “killing zone”. But then they were trying to ‘evacuate’ their tanks and artillery – as well as themselves and their personal weapons.
Let’s face it the only danger in the Russian/Government safety corridor at Aleppo would be to fleeing Al Nusra and ISIS forces. Aren’t they what the US is trying to stop too?
SOS Kerry has been hard at work trying to protect Al-Qaida. Constantly angling and pushing for a cease-fire to cover them. And will likely soon be pushing the Sham-Qaida name change in yet another diplomatic offensive to save them. Bombing ISIS is strongly opposed by much of the State Dept, most of the ‘Intelligence Community’, and now Hillary Clinton as the nominee of the Democratic Party. So, no the US is not trying to stop Sham-Qaida and ISIS.
I’m guessing you probably knew that, and were just being sarcastic. But someone aught to spell it out for any readers of this site who haven’t figured it out yet.
The only thing Samantha Power finds chilling is the fact that her beloved ISIS terrorists are about to be wiped off the map and all her government supply orders with her signature on them will be found next to illegal US weapons caches found in Syria.
She is one lying Be-och … The US government has absolutely no credibility what so ever.
” insisting that the civilians must never trust a government “that’s bombed & starved them.”
The USG has certainly bombed the Syrian people and no doubt it has indirectly helped starve them. Just who does she work for?
Samantha Powers absurd little diatribe clearly illustrates Washingtons’ mindless and utterly puerile, childish attitudes to Syria. Reality means NOTHING to these closeted beltway elitists, as its all about getting what they want, and nothing else matters.
To me, this is what truly scares me about Hillary and her crowd. They’ll do the most absurd things to score domestic politics points, or bribes (make your checks payable to the Clinton Foundation). This includes backing terrorist just at the time they’ve gotten to a new level of nasty and now just randomly and visciously attack anywhere. But, Hillary wants to side with them because she thinks that will get her votes. Same with Russia and China. She’ll anger a nuclear power to cover up her own rigging of elections and manipulation of the process so that the Democratic nominee is not the choice of most of the Democrats. She’s so arrogant in terms of foreign policy that she’ll do any stupid thing thinking it can’t possibly go wrong. Which is why I think a vote for Hillary is a vote for nuclear war.
American officials do not believe in letting innocents escape. For instance, refer to the early, US operations besieging Fallujah, where you had to be a certain age, or else you were force back into the city to face the terror bombing with high explosives and white phosphorus. That’s how the Americans roll.
And remember, if you vote for Hillary, then this evil ‘lady’ probably gets a promotion.