With their monitors withdrawn from the nation and their last UN Security Council resolution in shambles, the Arab League has voted today to push for a full scale United Nations invasion of the troubled nation of Syria.
Saying the move would “put additional pressure” on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the league says it wants to create a “joint” force of Arab League and United Nations “peacekeepers” as well as backing the various rebel factions.
Exactly what the proposal would accomplish is unclear, as the Arab League could not even pass a resolution that explicitly rejected military intervention through the UN Security Council. Analysts say the call for an attack is “symbolic.”
But symbolic of what, it isn’t clear. Syria’s government of course has rejected this “plan” and there is no chance either Russia or China is going to allow the UN to agree to it either. The net effect, then, is to further alienate Syria from the Arab League.
A better idea would be to stay out.
“Arab League Pushes for UN Invasion of Syria”
What a stupid move. Do they not know that the UN was created to keep peace, not to engage in war?
War is Peace
Black is White
Lies are Truth
The United Nations has become Animal Farm. All animals are equal but some are more equal than others. This is the second naked aggression pushed by the United Nations and it ugly associate AKA NATO. It is a shame to see what is going on and I believe you are watching the end of the arab league and the United Nations. What kind of world needs either organization.
the first arab state we should be attacking are the supposed culprits of 9/11, Saudi Arabia
we shouldn't be attacking any state, but we shouldn't be supporting and puppeting these dictatorial monarchies, who do whatever washington says anyways so you can't even blame them. Pull Washington support from the Gulf Monarchies – the only ones voting for invasion of Syria and they will collapse on their own, with no support from their people.
yeah baby
it is more likely that the US is pushing the Arab League to repeat the Libya con (ooops game plan).
The term used by the Beltway Elite is "strategic narrative." This, of course, is a Freudian slip, because it points to the fact that there is a made-up story to "explain" events to the citizen-idiocracy.
The Arab Leaugue wants to Bashir with one of their puppets. All they need is a sham election which the only candidates allowed their puppets.
what a bunch of shameless scumbags – they want foreigners to come in and do the dirty work of bombing and invading one of their fellow arab states, killing thousands of innocents in the process and creating chaos in the wake. And really, these pathetic, servile Gulf Monarchies represent the interests of the U.S., Israel and themselves and no one else, certainly not the interests of 99% of the people in the region.
where do the Iraqis go who were displaced by that war?
All refugees go directly to Turkey. It is the only place they can be sure the US won't bomb. (Reasonably sure). I don't know if they will be welcome, but where else should these poor people go?
America?
Anybody consider this whole Arab spring uprising which effectively disables all Arab governments' possible responses to situations outside their borders might be a prelude to an Israeli attack on Iran?
Would the Arabs feel bad if while they were fighting each other Israel kicked Iran back 1000 years?
Could Facebook provide cover for a preemptive strike?
Or am I just overthinkin' it?