Syria footage sheds light on Iran’s involvement

BBC News – Syria footage sheds light on Iran’s involvement.

The story of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard officer, Ismail Haidari, first reported by a German television station, is now retold and completed by BBC. It highlights the extant of Iran’s involvement in Syria. Considering US silence on this matter, and its current rapprochement with the Mulla regime, it seems clear now that the Obama Administration is offering Syria to Iran in exchange for her cooperation on her nuclear program, or, more likely, a convincing enough show of cooperation, so that President Obama can claim another one of his make-believe victories. After all, as a make-believe president, that’s the best that he could do.

Suu Kyi lets us down

Suu Kyi lets us down – Telegraph.

Ours is fast becoming a world without conscience, for people like Suu Kyi were supposed to play that role. But perhaps we were wrong all along, perhaps it was the Average Joe, the one whose personal agendas were “differently” complicated, who should have been entrusted with this role.

The First Six Months

Every analytical piece dealing with the Obama Administration policy on Syria has so far glossed over the administration’s baffling lack of action in the first six months of the revolution. Perhaps because any attempt at an explanation will open the door wide for all sorts of conspiracy theories. The alternative is to believe that the Administration has many morons in its upper ranks, in addition to the President himself. I lean towards believing in this alternative.

Syria: Is it Too Late To Do Anything?

Syria: Is it Too Late To Do Anything?.

The Obama Administration is using the fruits of its own failed policies, namely the rise of extremist forces in Syria and the entrenchment of Assad, to justify continued adherence to these same policies – an attitude which represents the pinnacle of hypocrisy and cynicism.