What is it with Democrats and tyrants?
Posted on 05/30/2012 2:04:46 AM PDT by bruinbirdman
The United Nations on Tuesday revealed that the majority of those massacred on Friday in the Syrian town of Houla were executed by regime-allied forces, whereupon France and Germany expelled the Syrian ambassadors from their capitals. German commentators say that it is time for the international community to take action.
The condemnation from the West has been withering. With months of violence continuing in Syria despite a United Nations attempt to broker a ceasefire six weeks ago, Western leaders have left no doubt that they consider Syrian President Bashar Assad to be solely responsible.
Now, following Friday's horrific massacre of over 100 people, dozens of them children, in the town of Houla, there are indications that China and Russia are reconsidering their support of the Assad regime. China, on Monday, strongly censured the violence, saying it "condemns in the strongest terms the cruel killings of ordinary citizens, especially women and children."
If anything, Moscow was even more unbending in its disapproval. "The government (Syria) bears the main responsibility for what is going on," said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov following a Monday meeting with British Foreign Secretary William Hague. "Any government in any country bears responsibility for the security of its citizens."
Given the inability of the United Nations Security Council to find consensus on a course of action with regards to the Syrian conflict, such indications that the two countries may be reconsidering their support are significant -- particularly now that ceasefire seems to have incontrovertibly failed.
Syrian Ambassadors Expelled
UN envoy Kofi Annan travelled to Damascus on Tuesday for talks with Assad in an effort to salvage the peace plan. Anti-government fighters, however, indicated on Monday that they no longer feel bound by the fragile agreement. And several Western governments would appear to have reached the conclusion that
Coming soon to a neighborhood near you.
yes, a civil war between a ruthless secular regime and ruthless, eviler jihadis supported by AlQaeda. Better to stick to the devil we know — Assad.
Only those strong enough, and willing to jihad will remain.
We know more than Jefferson did, and are terrorized into inactivity.
Syria
Chemical weapons on scuds
A desperate Assad
Israel (the convenient scapegoat)
The nuking of Damascus
WW3
?
Putin sees right through Mr. ZERO and it could get interesting. With that said Putin probably wants to see ZERO reelected. So he can continue to play him like a fiddle. . .
What is it with Democrats and tyrants?
What is it with Democrats and cliches? Someone should write a book about it.
Oh, and the quick answer is that throwing out a cliche is a lot easier than actually supporting a rational argument, which you rarely see the Left do.
Agreed. Glad to see I’m not alone in that opinion.
Send both sides plenty of explosives and ammo.
Neville Pelosi meets with Herr Hitler and returns with peace on our dime.
Peas on our dime. Whirled peas, at that.
We need to replace Assad with something worse.
I guess that makes sense to someone.
It’s like the Nazi-Soviet war or Iran-Iraq. You just kinda hate to see it end.
The sad part is that probably 90% of the people of Syria just want to live in peace with the world, but they were not fortunate to live in a good neighborhood.
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