Western officials appear to have been caught with their pants down, having endorsed a ceasefire that everyone assumed was “doomed” from the start and struggling to follow up with more anti-Syria sanctions because, to everyone’s surprise, the ceasefire seems to be holding.
Not that it’s stopping the rhetoric. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton confirmed that talks are already underway for more action at the UN Security Council when the ceasefire collapses, adding that the US is “not interested in new promises” from the Assad regime.
Likewise, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon issued a statement of his own demanding that Assad allow the UN observers full access. The first few observers arrived on Sunday, with more expected soon.
The interesting part about Ban’s comments is that there has been absolutely no indication that the regime wasn’t going to give the observers full access in the first place, and the statement appears to have come entirely out of the blue. The monitors are set to confirm the ceasefire’s continuation, allowing for negotiation.
To Hillary Clinton, if god was here with promise of peace and transparency regarding peace, she wouldn't believe it. In the other hand I think god has given up on NATO and US when it comes to their war “success story” especially when is about US and NATO wanting to implement democracy, he/she (god) knows that the democracy that these regimes are talking about is 100% falsified, yet god cannot be blamed for giving up on these regimes and this UN half moon, he/she (god) also knows that this man is biased and totally working for US-EU and the world most brutal tyrants regimes as Saudis and UAE.
So we're going to force Assad out, primarily because of his pro-Iranian tilt and the risk of reprisals if Israel makes war on Iran, and back an insurgency with known links to al Qaeda and Palestinian militants right on Israel's border. The insurgents are already itching to commit genocide against the Alawites and Christians. Annan recognized that Assad, on the ropes as he is, could be forced to make concessions on human rights and democracy and remain in power, which would be a better bet than handing it over to the insurgency.
The diary of Mose Sharet who was the second prime minister of Israel Ben Gurion in 1953 discussed with Lavon secretary of defense for Israel the plus of getting involved in Syria because they saw a weakness in the regime. Today is nothing more that trouble making by Israel because they believe all the nations in the middle east should be replaced with puppets for Israel. BTW Ben Gurion decided to stick to the plan attack on Egypt. What was amazing is in 1955 Israel did attack as planned two years prior and they stated it was because of the 1955 Egypt taking over the Canal. I wonder how they knew in 1953 the Egypts knew about the canal or was the canal a good reaso to start the war.
What Clinton is talking about is her and also this US administration unwavering support for rebels in all countries not firmly licking their boots. In case of Ban Ki-moon it is obvious why Koreans call him Ban-jusa which means something like little clerk, always licking boots of powerful bosses. It is very unfortunate that both UN and IAEA have lackeys of USA as a leaders.
I think you mean "US planning ceasefire failure"
Meanwhile Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said: "There are outside forces that are not interested in the success of the current U.N. Security Council efforts," Lavrov told reporters. "They are trying everything possible to substitute the Security Council with various unofficial formats such as the 'Friends of Syria' or some other forms".
Hmmm, I am wondering whom he was talking about 🙂
We have negotiations going on for half a century to "resovle" Israeli-Palestinian problem, but we have no patience to wait for a few years in Syria. In fact, we are so adamant in Syria, that come hell or high water, we are to support to the hilt the most extreme elements of Sunni society — the most radical of them being Al-Qaeda. But Al-Qaeda, being on the ropes for a while, can be turned into a good ally. In fact, they were our creation to stir up Afghanistan against the regime backed by Soviet Union. Why let all this investment go to waste. Now, in Syria, Christians and Shia Allawites get along, as does the great percentage of Sunni population. But the extrememist, funded and armed from the West and their VERY DEMOCRATIC fiefdoms of Saudi Arabia and Gulf — do not like niceties. They ARE ALREADY SLITTING THROATS OF CHRISTIANS AND SHIA MOSLEMS in parks and cemeteries, where they are taken for execution. There was an interview with one of them in German Der Spiegel. How come our "mainstream" press seems to miss all of this?