Speaking today in the wake of the embassy attacks in Damascus, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Syrian President Bashar Assad that he is “not indispensable” and that he must immediately ‘compensate’ the US for the attack.
Earlier in the day, busloads of pro-regime protesters arrived at the US and French embassies and carried out a public protest against them, eventually charging into the embassy, holding a sit-in and causing unspecified damage. No officials were harmed or in danger, despite the Western characterization of the protesters as “thugs.”
The protests were a reaction to the public appearances by US and French ambassadors in the city of Hama during anti-government protests in the city on Friday. The State Department accused the government of being responsible for today’s rally.
The comment about Assad’s waning indispensability, however, points to something the Obama Administration would likely prefer people to forget, that the US has long considered Assad something of a secret “ally,” and his regime has long been preferred by the US to a more democratic nation, which might mobilize more aggressively to reclaim the occupied Golan Heights from Israel.
ASmericans are claiming compensation and what about they are killing Pakistani on daily basis? as a terrorist state.
Actually the US is not indespensable either.
The World would be a better and safer place without US interference.
I don't know who sickens me most, Rupert Murdoch or Hillary Clinton.
Damn Hillary is a moron. Why not just take your marbles and go home. I am sure the attacks are the direct result of something that USA/Israel/France/England are doing. I am all for chances in the middle east but the record of successful changes run by the USA is very poor. I think we should look at our founding fathers and honor their belief that getting involved in foreign affairs. It would be a good time to stop funding Israel and let them go to their destiny. We clearly should take care of our own instead of flooding the wealthy with our tax dollars.
As Secretary Clinton whines about the negative reaction the Syrian populace
demonstrated for our interference in their domestic problems, the underlying goal
of Syrian regime change moves forward. In the “zero sum game” we are playing
with Iran, our policy of maintaining our control over the Mideast hides under
selective support for democracy. Unsure of what will transpire in Egypt and
Yemen, the Washington wonks have jumped at the rebellion in Syria as some sort
of attack upon Iran. Wether or not a majority of the Syrians want a regime change,
we have taken sides in an internal conflict. Scrambling to get our friends in
Baghdad to “permit” us to keep an army in Iraq and our always close to winning
and never ending war in Afghanistan, the directors of our Mideast policy now see
Syria as a “plum” to be picked. What Clinton et al continue to fail to understand is
that we are the invaders, the occupiers in the Middle East.
This bought and sold zionist cow knows damn well we are the invaders and occupiers on the Eurasian landmass, make no mistake about it. She's the drunken, uninvited guest at the buffet table, embarrassing herself and those she represents with her bossiness and veiled, condescending threats to the brown subordinates who wouldn't know the best gov't for their people were she not there to instruct them.
I'd comment, but seeing as my last couple of statements never made it through the filter of the 'site administrator, it's probably pointless. Amazing that a site SOOOO concerned about government repression and such doesn't even allow free speech on their own web site! Well, golly, the next time Antiwar asks for a donation, you can just bet I'll be first in line with my credit card….
Dude, you are either paranoid or a troll or both.
At one time Hillary deemed Ghaddaffi "not indespensable"….now its reported that the French [and who else?] one of our European "allies" are in discussions with Ghaddaffi and his govt…..hate to even think this but Ms. Hillary seems to have been infected by the Bachmann bug.
So, in it's god-given right as ruler of the universe, the US is now taking it upon itself to dictate who is/is not indispensable. Nice! When will they ever look in the mirror and decide that we can all get along without them?
No miss clinton, you're not indispensible or needed, let alone wanted.
Viva Assad!
So the person who ordered her diplomats to steal credit card numbers from UN officials is questioning someone's legitimacy…ok, that could only make sense in Washington.