Has anyone seen or heard anything from Samantha Power? This new direction being considered is so far beyond hypocritical, the light from where hypocritical starts would never even catch them.
Just think, it was not long ago when Hillary Clinton, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Senator Obama, John Kerry, Chuck Schumer, et al were foaming at the mouth and seething toward George Bush for contemplating unilateral military action with out UN support. Those aforementioned progs were demanding UN authorization before Bush could take military action. Yet, in typical leftist prog fashion, they are now discussing the exact same thing.
And that does not even begin to consider the stupidity surrounding the very “rebels” they are trying to help being specifically known as al-Qaeda operatives implanted into the Syrian resistance.
SYRIA – Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, bluntly criticised Russia’s continued backing for President Bashar al-Assad’s regime yesterday. This support was illustrated last night by the disclosure that a Russian cargo ship carrying weapons had docked in Syria last Saturday, one day after the massacre in Houla which claimed at least 108 civilian lives.
Addressing students in Denmark, Mrs Clinton urged Russia to use its influence on Mr Assad to curb the fighting.
“The Syrians are not going to listen to us. They will listen – maybe – to the Russians, so we have to keep pushing them,” she said.
Russian officials, added Mrs Clinton, “are telling me they don’t want to see a civil war. I have been telling them their policy is going help to contribute to a civil war.” Western governments believe that diplomatic cover afforded by the Kremlin has emboldened Mr Assad and encouraged him to resist pressure to negotiate a settlement of the conflict.
Earlier, Susan Rice, the American ambassador to the UN, said that Russia’s veto-wielding membership of the Security Council would not necessarily prevent international action. If the violence worsened and the peace plan proposed by Kofi Annan, the former UN secretary general, made no progress, some countries would consider whether to bypass Russian and Chinese opposition in the UN.
“Members of this Council and members of the international community are (then) left with the option only of having to consider whether they’re prepared to take actions outside of the Annan plan and the authority of this Council,” said Ms Rice.
Leaders of the Free Syrian Army, the rebel movement, issued a statement giving the regime until Friday (today) to obey the Annan plan, or they would formally abandon a ceasefire.
But Mrs Clinton noted the obstacles to any Western military intervention, starting with the probable Russian and Chinese vetoes that would prevent any action from having UN support. “We’re nowhere near putting together any type of coalition other than to alleviate the suffering,” she said. “We have very strong opposition from Russia and China – but it’s primarily from Russia – and that makes it harder to put together an international coalition.” (read more)
