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Posted on 12/20/2011 2:53:49 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Western powers will not likely intervene to stop the crisis in Syria because of the "complexity" of the issue, Arab League chief Nabil Elaraby told Egyptian daily Al Shorouk Tuesday.
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Elaraby was citing fears that a military intervention in Syria would drag the region into a larger conflict due to Damascus's allies and enemies in close proximity. Libya is more territorially isolated.
The Arab League chief said the Syrian opposition "has not matured yet," saying the Syrian Revolution General Commission, a coalition of some 40 opposition groups, is unable to change the facts on the ground.
Speaking a day after Syrian President Bashar Assad agreed to a league plan to send Arab monitors to the embattled country, Elaraby insisted the original resolve of the plan was intact. He said Syrian amendments did not change the nature of the observers' mission.
Elaraby explained that monitors would hail from Arab countries, adding that some may be from Muslim countries as well. Their goal will be to provide protection for Syrian civilians so that opposition groups and the Assad government may carry out a dialogue for planning Syria's future ruling power and ending the nine-month violent conflict...
Opposition activists said at least 114 people were killed in clashes Monday, Al Jazeera reported. According to the Syrian Revolution General Commission 80 army defectors were among the dead.
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IOW, the Arab League has effed up again.
“Russian Client State” = “too complex” for western involvement
Translation: move along, nothing to see here, and we prefer it that way!
So what’s wrong with moozlums grinding each other into a bloody pulp? Have at it, fools.
to “complicated”
Horse pooh.
Just go in and kill Assad and all his henchmen
2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
3 The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts.
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