Posted on 02/16/2014 12:28:48 PM PST by PieterCasparzen
Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain suggested Saturday that efforts to end Syria’s roughly 3-year-long civil war are on the brink of failure and the crisis is worsening, following a second round of stalled talks.
“The second round of Syria peace talks ended today with no progress toward a negotiated political settlement to the conflict and UN Special Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi recognizing that failure is looming,” McCain said this weekend. “After three weeks of talks, we are moving further and further away from a peaceful political solution.”
McCain argues the regime of Syrian President Bashar al Assad has in fact accelerated its attacks on residents, with more of them killed in the three weeks since peace talks began than at any other time during the conflict.
He said fighters have continued with their bombing campaign, are detaining hundreds of men evacuated from the city of Homs in violation of a humanitarian agreement, and will not allow the international community to provide aid to thousands caught in the fighting.
McCain argues the United State has embarked on a failing strategy in Geneva of allowing Russia, Assad’s closest ally, to put pressure on him.
“Russia has recently prevented the passage of a much-needed U.N. resolution on bringing aid to desperate Syrian civilians,” he said. “Such actions indicate that the Russian government is simply not a partner for peace in Syria and cannot be relied on to help secure a successful outcome.”
McCain said he wants to “change the balance of power on the ground” but is calling for options “far short” of an Iraq-style invasion. He also said he was encouraged to hear that President Obama may begin considering different policy options for Syria.
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O.K. McPain, then YOU go enlist, on behalf of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood and it’s Sunni Islamist putsch in Syria.
The “regime” in Syria is the lesser evil. The regime in the USA is the real problem.
All I want to know is what is North Vietnam’s position? I’m absolutely positive McCain will agree with them.
McCain is just another useful idiot for Obama’s puppet master.
Hanoi John McCain is also leading George Soros campaign to push Ukraine into EU, when most of their people do not want it
“To quote Wargames, it seems the only winning move is not to play.”
The total truth of which was just discovered by a certain gentleman named Dunn in FL yesterday.
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