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Posted on 05/27/2013 11:31:20 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
The push to bring warring sides together is becoming ever-more pressing in a conflict that has claimed more than 94,000 lives, amid reports of "horrific" rights violations and mounting evidence that chemical weapons are being used.
In Brussels, meanwhile, 27 European Union foreign ministers met to try to hammer out a compromise in a longstanding row over whether to supply weapons to Syria's rebels when an arms embargo expires this week.
But these efforts come against a background of growing divisions within the Syrian opposition, as fighting rages on the ground between rebels and regime troops now aided by the Lebanese Shi'ite group Hezbollah.
Kerry arrived in Paris for talks with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov to advance the initiative for an international peace conference, and the two will then be joined by French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius for dinner.
The US secretary of state will brief Lavrov about a recent Friends of Syria meeting in Jordan, at which the 11 ministers of the core group told Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that refusing to negotiate was not an option.
Kerry has warned that unless the two sides come to the table, the world will witness "the continued tragic disintegration of a country that will go down further into more violence and more bloodshed and more destruction".
The proposed conference is being spearheaded by Russia and the United States and has been dubbed "Geneva 2" after a similar meeting last June produced a peace roadmap that was however never implemented.
But with the much-publicised involvement of Hezbollah threatening to pull Lebanon deep into the conflict, the talks are becoming increasingly pressing.
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YUK!
Hezbollah's Heavy Losses - After a week's worth of fighting in Syria, ...licks its wounds.
Liberals are always ready to talk peace,
it doesn’t matter if one is winning or not,
as long as someone else pays the price.
Kerry has warned that unless the two sides come to the table, the world will witness “the continued tragic disintegration of a country that will go down further into more violence and more bloodshed and more destruction”.
Which of course will happen whether they come to the
“table” or not.
It's Obama's "Russia don't tell me what to do" stance. It's how the Boston Bombing happened.
I flat out do not believe these ever increasing death statistics, and have said so for two years.
I also don't believe the completely unsubstantiated claims that Assad is killing civilians with chemical weapons.
Virtually all these claims are reported by AFP, the BBC, Reuters, and the NYTimes.
Those four news corporations are active cheerleaders for the viciously anti-Israel Islamic Brotherhood, and they are doing everything possible to bring down Assad.
Think about those numbers.
That's 100 deaths per day, minimum.
The 8 year war in Yugoslavia, which included dozens of meticulously documented mass slaughters, only killed about 100,000.
Assad is a bad man, but - before the "Arab Spring" - he rarely provoked or threatened Israel.
When the Islamic Brotherhood takes over, the first thing they will do is try to take back the Golan Heights.
And AFP, the BBC, Reuters, and the NYTimes can't wait to report that story.
this is a chance to fix the goofed-up
Syrian borders.
Obama never misses an opportunity,
to miss an opportunity.
The only change in the two years of the Syrian civil war has been one recent gain by the Assad regime, which clearly doesn’t run the country, and is being propped up by Iranian thugs, Iranian proxies, and the Russians. Its agitprop offensive has picked up. Thanks Ernest.
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Kerry has warned that unless the two sides come to the table, the world will witness "the continued tragic disintegration of a country that will go down further into more violence and more bloodshed and more destruction".
John, which side do you think cares about you and the world witnessing anything.
Rich Widows....eh....Hmmm...I’ve been looking.
Not only did John Kerry marry rich, but he dumped is first wife for a richer one — Theresa Heinz — widow of Sen. John Heinz. John Heinz was killed in a plane crash while campaigning for re-election.
It does my heart good to think of Syria disintegrating and all the evil factions at each others’ throats.
“While others look at reality and ask ‘why,’ I look at what could be and ask, ‘why not?”
—RFK
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