Posted on 09/02/2013 8:30:29 AM PDT by Pan_Yan
(Reuters) - Russian lawmakers want to travel to Washington to urge the U.S. Congress not to back President Barack Obama's plan for military strikes on Syria, the speaker of the upper house of parliament told President Vladimir Putin on Monday.
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"I think if we manage to establish a dialogue with our partners in the U.S. Congress, to exchange arguments, we could possibly better understand each other," Matviyenko, speaker of the Federation Council, told Putin at his residence near Moscow.
"We hope that the U.S. Congress will occupy a balanced position in the end and without strong arguments in place ... will not support the proposal on use of force in Syria," Matviyenko added.
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Everybody off the stritz!
It will be hard for them (just like the American people)
to separate the greedy, treasonous, self-serving
US Congress from its brothels, its banks,
its secret payoffs, its private laws,
its NSA derived loveint, and its final future
payoff in citizens’ organs from ObamaCARE/DeathCARE.
Perceptive of them if that is the case...
But if they do and it becomes quite public, all I can say to B. Hussein O. is:
"Snap! Sucks to be you, Hussein."
We didn’t listen to the Russians when they tried to warn us about the Tsarnaevs.
Funny as the way the Prophet Obunghole and the congress and most of our government agencies have been behaving I would be hard pressed to not think the Russians are already here and infecting every area of government with their communist idiocy.
Preparing for Ezekiel 38 and 39 . . . Stand by for The Trumpet!
They would probably do a better job of “congressional outreach” than arrogant Fairy Prince Obama and his flying monkeys.
At least give them audience.
The articles are somewhat strident in their wording, reminiscent of the old days, and may be designed to build nationalism, but they also may be genuine, as Russia in general seems to be rejecting moral decay and the Western press promotes that same decay and does hate Putin.
This gets around the press, around Obama, and the message is delivered by other than the hated messenger, Putin.
Are the Russians still all Communists?
Testing obama’s “flexibility”?
McLame will never listen
Don’t bother. He’s already said he doesn’t care which way Congress votes.
“...are they looking for some US authority to reason with, thinking Obama’s insane and beyond reason?”
They’re looking for rational adults to deal with, not a big-talking, small-walking, no-brained, dope-smoking, dog-eating, community-agitating petulant child narcissist with a Napoleonic Complex who thinks “leading from behind” is a virtue.
They know Obama is a punk and they want to try to reason with adults. Sadly, there are very few of those left in Congress.
Yeah, that’s another way of putting it.
I don’t think we should be involved in Syria at all. The whole place is screwed up. We have two factions capable of using WMDs, and I think they’re both likely to have used them. We don’t know for sure.
There are times when you can garner good will by listening to others. Europe isn’t in our camp on this. The Middle-East is uneasy over it. Some want us in. Others do not.
Here is a chance to allow Russia to play the role of a major player. Let their MPs come here. Send five planes to go pick them up. Make a big summit out of it.
I consider this a chance to toss Russia a bone. It went from super status to no status. I think it misses being relevant. This is an opportunity to bring our two nations closer together. We should take advantage of it.
Let Russia look like it talked us out of it.
Russia and the United States should be close. We should become good allies. All it takes is a decision to do so, and we can start tossing each other favorable deals.
Russia has a very long agreement with Syria. We should honor that agreement. Truth be told, Russia could actually help be a mediator in this whole Syria mess. Handled correctly, we might even get Assad to accept leaving office.
This is the type of deal we should be working towards. The airstrike idea is foolhardy. It’s like hitting Ivan over the head with a mallet, so we can prove how big we are, and for what? This is idiotic.
It wouldn’t have to mean we just stand back and let Russia screw things up for the next 50 years. I don’t think they could do much worse than Carter did in Iran in the 70s though.
Let Putin look like a statesman. Give the guy some respect. Work out a plan with Russia and implement it together.
Do we need to trust Putin completely? No. I don’t think we should. It’s still better to have a strong working relationship, than to continue to build up animosity over time, and not devise a way to release it.
This is actually a made to order moment here.
It has been my take that we missed an incredible opportunity at Belson. We should have acted as if those kids were American kids, showing all the grief we would have if this had taken place on our soil. Those types of expressions of shared experience draw nations closer together.
Russia needs to see value in being partners with the West, particularly us. Now is a good time to start to make that happen.
Moving forward to this end in a wise well thought out manner, could be a very positive thing.
“Yeah, that’s another way of putting it.”
So then it’s settled. We agree. The world is a much better place today! ;)
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