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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President Obama’s empty boast on Syria

President Obama’s empty boast on Syria – The Washington Post.

The man, Obama, is delusional and has gone beyond the pale of decency and humanity. As for Rice, she’s not exactly the first person to put career above principle. And we still have three more years with them on the helm. What a happy thought with which to commemorate the encroaching end of the year.

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.

The death of Dr Abbas Khan shows how Syria’s President Assad shares power with ruthless and erratic henchmen

The death of Dr Abbas Khan shows how Syria’s President Assad shares power with ruthless and erratic henchmen – The Independent.

At this stage, #Assad won’t give a second thought to killing the Queen, not just a doctor, because he has created a mess in which no Western country would contemplate intervening. The moment Obama backed down on the strike, Syria was effectively given to the wolves.