He's full of shyt as this one NY Times commentator stated,Coppin pleas?
"We need to use the United Nations Security Council and believe that preserving law and order in today’s complex and turbulent world is one of the few ways to keep international relations from sliding into chaos."
For over two years, Russia has blocked every UN intervention proposed to stop Assad's slaughter of 100,000 Syrian people, the creation of 2,000,000 refugees fleeing their own country and over 6,000,000 Syrians displaced from their own homes, all along supplying Assad with state of the art weaponry.
During this period, when Russia and Syria worked against the United Nations, ignoring the pleas of human rights organizations and the US and the EU to negotiate a political solution with the Free Syria movement, Al Quaeda fighters from every corner of the globe took advantage and entered Syria. Al Nusra Front, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in Syria is largely the result of that.
In a UN report recently released documenting the horrendous use of chemical weapons in Syria, one attack, among the smallest, has been linked to the rebels while every other one, and there have been many, have been found to have been directly released by the Assad government.
This is a beautifully written piece but it ignores years of Russian obstruction of UN intervention.
However, I applaud President Putin's move toward the UN and President Obama's, also. If the Syrian people are to be saved, it will be at the UN. How unfortunate that two long, brutal years have been wasted.
He's full of shyt as this one NY Times commentator stated,
Syria and Iran are the reason I'm looking at two towers of light when I look out my window tonight.
I hope Obama does the right thing an initiates regime change in both prior to the end of his term.
I was and I'm still on that about strikes (but then I'm probably more of a pacifist than most of you), but it looks like the U.N. is about to say Assad's regime or at least someone tied to Assad is responsible for the chemical attacks in question.Russia needs Syria (and by extension Iran) for resources and strategic reasons, US wants regime change in Syria to appease Qatar/Saudis/Israel/Oil Companies.
Any talk from the US and Russian government about international law violations, dead children, rebels being terrorists, chemical weapons use and so on is utter nonsense.
U.N. inspectors have collected a "wealth" of evidence on the use of nerve agents that points to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad using chemical weapons against his own people, according to a senior Western official.
The inspection team, which is expected on Monday to present U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon with a highly anticipated report on a suspected Aug. 21 nerve agent attack in the suburbs of Damascus, will not directly accuse the Syrian regime of gassing its own people, according to three U.N.-based diplomats familiar with the investigation. But it will provide a strong circumstantial case -- based on an examination of spent rocket casings, ammunition, and laboratory tests of soil, blood, and urine samples -- that points strongly in the direction of Syrian government culpability.
"I know they have gotten very rich samples -- biomedical and environmental -- and they have interviewed victims, doctors and nurses," said the Western official. "It seems they are very happy with the wealth of evidence they got." The official, who declined to speak on the record because of the secrecy surrounding the U.N. investigation, could not identify the specific agents detected by the inspector team, but said, "You can conclude from the type of evidence the [identity of the] author."
The U.N. team, which is led by the Swedish scientist Ake Sellström, traveled to Damascus last month to begin an investigation into the alleged use of chemical weapons. During that trip, according to the United States and other Western powers, Syrian forces launched a chemical weapons attack that killed more than 1,400 people in the al Ghouta suburb of Damascus.
U.N. inspectors have collected a "wealth" of evidence on the use of nerve agents that points to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad using chemical weapons against his own people, according to a senior Western official.
The inspection team, which is expected on Monday to present U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon with a highly anticipated report on a suspected Aug. 21 nerve agent attack in the suburbs of Damascus, will not directly accuse the Syrian regime of gassing its own people, according to three U.N.-based diplomats familiar with the investigation. But it will provide a strong circumstantial case -- based on an examination of spent rocket casings, ammunition, and laboratory tests of soil, blood, and urine samples -- that points strongly in the direction of Syrian government culpability.
"I know they have gotten very rich samples -- biomedical and environmental -- and they have interviewed victims, doctors and nurses," said the Western official. "It seems they are very happy with the wealth of evidence they got." The official, who declined to speak on the record because of the secrecy surrounding the U.N. investigation, could not identify the specific agents detected by the inspector team, but said, "You can conclude from the type of evidence the [identity of the] author."
The U.N. team, which is led by the Swedish scientist Ake Sellström, traveled to Damascus last month to begin an investigation into the alleged use of chemical weapons. During that trip, according to the United States and other Western powers, Syrian forces launched a chemical weapons attack that killed more than 1,400 people in the al Ghouta suburb of Damascus.
Syria and Iran are the reason I'm looking at two towers of light when I look out my window tonight.
I hope Obama does the right thing an initiates regime change in both prior to the end of his term.
the homie gadafi was right. this aint democracy. this is dictatorship... you can call it or "advertise" it however you want but it is what it is.
"The thing we fear most is that the black man suffers from an inferiority complex. This is dangerous. If our brother Obama feels that because he is black he doesn't have the right to rule America, this would be a disaster, because such a feeling would make him behave whiter than the white, and go to an extreme in his persecution and degradation of the blacks. We say to him: Brother, the whites and blacks in America are equal. They are all immigrants. America belongs neither to the whites nor to the blacks. America belongs to its original inhabitants, the Indians. Both the whites and the blacks immigrated to America, and so they are equal, and Obama has the right to hold his head high, and say: 'I am a partner in America. This is my land as much as it is yours. If it is not my land, it is not yours either. It is the land of the Indians. You are immigrants, and so are we.'...We still hope that this black man will take pride in his African and Islamic identity, and in his faith, and that (he will know) that he has rights in America, and that he will change America from evil to good, and that America will establish relations that will serve it well with other peoples, especially the Arabs."
Great words from a great man.
Syria and Iran are the reason I'm looking at two towers of light when I look out my window tonight.