In multi-hour talks today with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President Obama reiterated that the US “reserves the right” to attack Syria militarily despite a previous deal with Russia to pursue a negotiated settlement to the nation’s ongoing civil war.
At the same time Obama insisted that the US would not attack Syria unilaterally, but would only do so as part of a broader alliance of attacking nations, saying the US had “no magic formula for dealing with an extraordinary violent and difficult situation like Syria’s.”
Erdogan is keen to get President Obama to talk up military action on Syria because he blamed the Assad government for bombings in the border town of Reyhanli over the weekend. Protesters in southern Turkey have blamed Erdogan’s government, however, and his policy of backing Syria’s rebels.
While in this context it is unclear how serious the threats to Syria are, and how much is simply diplomatic grandstanding. The two leaders capped off their meeting by reiterating their demand that President Assad immediately resign.
The demand reflects similar statements from Syria’s rebels, who have rejected the US-Russia peace talks initiative and insist instead that Assad unconditionally stand down in favor of a rebel government. The US is struggling to clarify exactly how it can back the talks while endorsing the position of rebels not to participate, but does not appear to be considering any serious policy change in response.
USA have no option but going to war with those who can support it.., morally, economically and politically.., now show me the brave ons as David Cameron with money.., show me the morally fitted nation in the region or in Europe or America that would want for its government to participate.., perhaps turkey should separate from nato and try? then comes England and then comes French and then Saudi Arabia and Qatar's and other illegitimate kingdoms, tyrants of the region.., all that is possible.., all that will happen if Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, Russia and other true friends of Syria stand by and just look. So Obama don't want to have a Vietnam style war on his name.., he thought that Hillary could handle it like Libya.., what Hillary Clinton didn't count with was the resistance by the Syrian people against exported barbarians.
Let's see…what happened this week…
1. The nimrods at the UN called for a 'non-binding' (essentially meaningless) "General Assembly" 'vote' on a meaningless "Syrian resolution" just as a political stunt, only to have it back fire in their faces when the actual 'results' of the sham "vote" indicate 28 nations since August have dropped political support for the international proxy war of terror the US is leading against Syria.
2. Israel went crying to The New York Times via an 'unnamed official' after the consequences of another Israeli strike against Syria were specified. Israel even 'covertly' claimed more strikes against Syria would be forthcoming; yet none actually were…even after Hezbollah claimed the "Assad Regime" promised "the resistance" a "new weapon" 'the resistance' has never had before the Israeli strikes…
3. Then: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/17/world/middleeas… — whether this is accurate or not is somewhat besides the point, as the real 'issue' is the fact "US officials" are 'claiming' it is true and that this would make firing US ballistic missles into Syria more difficult…
To top it off: Señor McClown of AZ himself openly proclaimed that: "Bashar al-Assad is winning"…
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/05/16/has-ob…
"Reality" is actually smacking McClown so hard across the face, even he can't deny it… "If and when" has suddenly changed to "Bashar al-Assad is winning"…as I've been saying for over a year it would…
The writing is on the wall…Israel lost…
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wJoEgeqAMnw/TIf1wp-YRsI…
To understand what fraud this article is, I suggest the background primer about Syria:
http://08oo.wordpress.com/2012/05/30/key-reasons-…
and this:
http://colorrevolutionsandgeopolitics.blogspot.de…
Meanwhile, to the tune of Toto Coelo´s "We Eat Cannibals" the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) are thundering trough the last remnants of ZATO´s mercenaries and the Russian fleet is approaching….
Obama continue his foreign policy of empire and interventionism.
Oh Dear, this is the Color Revolutions and Geopolitics article which criticised Antiwar.com over a year ago and the issue was raised with Eric Garris.
Jason, your article of yesterday is a good article at the beginning but then does not address the issues. Sorry.
I still have the emails with Eric Garris.
it was said if you did not challenge the "Narrative" – "popular uprising in Syria, violent repression, killing his own people, Obama and allies horrified by violence" – then they would in about a year be in a position to mount an attack under cover of this. Which is what it was for.
This is what has happened, along with Ergodan – one of the principle instigators – Obama can say on the White Hose lawn he has no magic formula for dealing with an extraordinary violent situation and we are al lworried about Jihadists. Whilst saying he is entitled to invade.
Unfortunately;-
Unfortunately;-
It was a Covert Operation planned by Washington for many years. On which a vast fortune has been spent.
The Sunni Jihadists, the ones who carried out major terrorist incidents in London and New York, had been brought back as the only force capable of mounting an insurgency campaign.
The middle class and student "democracy" activists recruited for Color Revolution demonstrations were obviously entirely unsuitable for this.
All this was leaked in London in The Times in robust language, where it was said they were old it was the only way to do it.
If this had been said Obama doesn't have a leg to stand on. But it hasn't so he can continue with his "Humanitarian Intervention" propaganda – oops, sorry, I promised not to use that word.
only fools believe in this garbage: Sunni Jihadists, the ones who carried out major terrorist incidents in London and New York
The Sunni Jihadist,this statement is considered as an insult
For the Sunni sect, jihad have to be called by an Islamic country
Which one doesn't exist as I write this comment so these so
Called jihadist are nothing but mercenaries similar to blackWater mercenaries.
How do you describe an islamic country Keith?
Worst of all evils
Exactly a half century has transpired since my ignominy in the Vietnam War, and in all our Empire’s days of glory never have I seen such a gross manifest violation of the moral imperative — the better of two evils do.
For dictators like those in Israel and Saudi Arabia want wars unending as it is the only way they can stay in power, but for our Empire’s days of wine and roses — allowing the most satanic and criminal terrorists on earth to rule Syria could spell catastrophe.
Call me crazy, but from what I've been able to read about this crisis, Russia seems to be the good guys. Would the US not already have started bombing if it wasn't for Russian opposition?
Absolutely mate, the simple fact is (and this is even more relevant now that elements of the Russian Pacific Fleet have transited the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean), that Russia and by implication Iran and China are preventing the territorial advances that the western backed terrorists want to make under the guise of humanitarian intervention or regime change. Remove Russia from the equation and AFRICOM and the European elements of the western powers (NATO) would be onto Syria like a fly on a fresh turd. Israel of course remains the driving force but never comes into the spotlight, to do so would tip the Islam/Judaism differences too far and outright blood letting would ensue.
What we are seeing here is an over stretched USA, currently involved in 74 operations of varying degrees worldwide. Their economy is tanking, and the situation in regards to industrial capacity to project military power on the scale required is simply no longer available, the government under Bush and Obama have gutted the American steel belt and production and manufacturing capabilities.
The deployment of high tech and very sophisticated anti-air defence measures in Syria has got Israel's panties in a bunch because they now know they cannot fly over Syria with impunity anymore, and they hate that, thus the war drums beat to the Zionist tune.
Personally, although it means loss of life on a limited scale want to see the western powers in the region get a short sharp bloody nose and step back, the world has changed, the US is not the once mighty empire it thought it was, it is a corrupt and declining into irrelevance has been of a bygone era.
While the US and its backers crave power, energy security and profit at the expense of people and whole countries there will be no peace, anywhere.
History books will talk about this a few years from now like this was obvious ever since the beginning, but the truth is it's so much harder to see these things when you're right in the middle of it