Posted on 02/14/2012 5:08:15 AM PST by edpc
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu had a clear and unified message coming out of their meeting in Washington, D.C. Monday: They are looking for a political solution in Syria and won't consider putting international troops there unless the Syrian regime agrees.
Clinton and Davotoglu spent the afternoon preparing for the upcoming inaugural meeting of the "Friends of Syria" group this weekend in Tunisia. Following the meeting, they both urged the international community to support the Arab League's recommendations for Syria following their Sunday meeting in Cairo, which included a request for a U.N.-Arab peacekeeping force in Syria. But Clinton said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who the State Department accuses of murdering civilians, would have to agree first.
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Thanx. Makes perfect sense.
Never thought I’d say it, but... Hillary’s right.
No troops in Syria, not to pursue the same objective as al-Qaeda.
Megiddo is within WMD range of Syria... within range of locations from which Syria (or its allies or proxies) could launch WMD
Har Megiddo
Hillary is a fool
Other then getting her craven husband reelected (and through him, herself) and endowing the Clinton family brand with grafted wealth by ruthless self-serving stinginess and greed, she hasn’t successfully achieved a major meaningful project or mission in her entire government career, or probably in her professional legal career either
Don’t confuse a gravelly voice, ruthless steely eyes, and sensible pants suits for gravitas
"We Need Assad's Consent To Put Troops In Syria."
That's Kinda like us saying almost 70 years ago "WE NEED TOJO's CONSENT TO PUT TROOPS ON IWO JIMA.".
I didn't, and I agree she's a nasty, corrupt creature. But I still don't want U.S. troops in Syria.
They have a mixture of a few hundred SCUD-Bs, SCUD-Cs, and SS-21s. Additionally, it's been reported they developed a longer range SCUD-D with North Korean assistance. This would allow them to deploy the launchers deeper into Syria and still reach all of Israel.
What Hillary said was completely idiotic.
I don’t want to see even one single American soldier in Syria - period. If they want to kill each other, let them. A repeat of what we did in Libya will usher in yet another radical islamic regime. Maybe Obama wants that, but we don’t.
90 miles.
wow.
I certainly hope we don’t see the largest armies on Earth converging there.
Really, is that what the administration did in Libya?
If liberal democrats were sane & logical, I’d say that maybe Hillary was “setting the diplomatic bar” impossibly high to actually prevent the serious contemplation of a western (ie. US) intervention. But then nobody should deem the members of this administration as either ‘sane’ or ‘logical’.
The Russians would love us there. Wasting more money we don't have, more American lives and more wear and tear on our inventory. In other words, more grinding down American might.
No, the Russians would not “love us” to be there.
Syria, Assad and the port of Tartus are bought and paid for.
No western interference will be tolerated with one of their last prime Cold War proxies
Besides, their other buddies the Iranians would have a cow. That would be a bad thing because if they feel too isolated from the Levant, they will be even more dangerous, imho
I don’t see any “good guys” in Syria. We should leave them alone as they kill themselves off.
Twelve days ago, thanks edpc.
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