Cameron, Clegg and Miliband: fate of Syrian children hangs in the balance

Cameron, Clegg and Miliband: fate of Syrian children hangs in the balance | The Guardian.

This is mere grandstanding. Without peacekeepers on the ground willing to confront both regime and Al-Qaeda militias when necessary, no such access can be provided in most areas where humanitarian assistance is needed. But no one has been willing to volunteer peacekeepers, as no peacekeeping mission is possible without agreement of all sides. In the final analysis, nothing short of decapitating the two-headed monster (Assad and Al-Qaeda) feeding on our children can actually work.

The Real Reason Putin Supports Assad

The Real Reason Putin Supports Assad | Foreign Affairs.

In short, Putin wants no change in Syria, and his people will keep fighting for regime preservation in Geneva 2 and beyond, even as the country and the region implode. Caught between the ideological blinders of Obama and those of Putin, a rock and a hard place indeed, Syria has been lost and millions of her citizens are now paying the price. Acting in his own unique way, each leader managed to conjure up the worst case scenario had had dreaded all along, and since each is in the habit of running forward from his fuckups, the situation is bound to get worse. Regional meltdown is around the corner, and the fallouts will go global.

Unreasonable!

Jimmy Carter and Robert Pastor wrote:

“These preconditions should not be controversial, but they mean that Syrian factions — and their supporters — would have to back down from their former unreasonable demands.”

Yeah, I guess demanding freedom from tyranny is really quite unreasonable. That’s why I guess, the U.S. did not support us, and pro-democracy activists and moderate rebels were left to face Assad’s killing machine, oiled by Russia and Iran, on their own, seeing that Saudi, Qatar and Turkey supported the other extreme.

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Don’t Get in Bed With Assad

Don’t Get in Bed With Assad – NYTimes.com.

For more than 1,000 days, the kind of rational arguments and proposals reiterated here by Emile Hokayem have fallen on deaf ears. The Obama Administration will continue to be willfully blind and deaf in regard to the Genocide in #Syria for which their moral culpability is increasing by the hour and with each additional death.