Posted on 09/21/2013 12:16:12 PM PDT by ColdOne
In addition to its newfound faith in the U.N., the White House has also changed its tune on holding Assad accountable to deadlines in the Russia-Syria agreement.
On September 16th, the State Department told reporters the U.S. would use Assad's compliance with the deadlines in the Syria-Russia agreement to ascertain how "serious" the Russians and Assad's regime are about the destruction of the chemical weapons. Harf said that Assad's compliance with the deadline to give a full catalog of their chemical weapons to the U.N. by this Saturday "is going to be the first example of the intentions of the Syria regime, how serious they are."
The press asked the next logical question this week in response: "What happens if Syria shows they're not serious?" Harf's adamance on the deadline softened on Wednesday, the next day. "This is a framework for how we want to move forward," she announced, "so, hopefully, we will see a declaration from the Syrian regime in the coming days. I don’t want to put a hard and fast deadline on it."
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-PJ
The mouse that roared
So are shirts and shoes...
light red line....
Not with this clown.
Otherwise known as, “Make this go away please”
Obama’s grab for positive PR by acting tough on Syria a month or two ago blew up in his face, so now default option, as with all Obama failures, will simply be to ignore it. A pliant media will not cover it, and for the low-information voter, the issue will simply no longer exist.
We are now drawing Schroedinger lines, there may be dead cat in that box or not. There may be an armed attach for that gas attack or not.
Harf said that Assad's compliance with the deadline to give a full catalog of their chemical weapons to the U.N. by this Saturday "is going to be the first example of the intentions of the Syria regime, how serious they are." The press asked the next logical question this week in response: "What happens if Syria shows they're not serious?" Harf's adamance on the deadline softened on Wednesday, the next day. "This is a framework for how we want to move forward," she announced, "so, hopefully, we will see a declaration from the Syrian regime in the coming days. I don’t want to put a hard and fast deadline on it."
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