(June 30, 2012 at 12:33 am)cato123 Wrote:(June 29, 2012 at 11:12 pm)Epimethean Wrote: The U.S. and Russia can't agree on the recommendations by Annan, for rather obvious reasons. Turkey is gearing up for border skirmishes, Israel is on edge (even more than usual), and Damascus is under fire.
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/inter...index.html
The best thing that could happen for the Syrian people is for the U.S. and Russia to keep their mouths shut, and let some idiot throw a rock across the Turkish border. I say let the Turks sort this out. Their backyard, they are more than capable and will give some welcomed peace to the Syrians.
The best Assad can hope for now is a country that will give him asylum. Assad has seemed to ingnore the fate of Khadafi.
It is precisely because of the fate of khadafi that Assad is now empowered to crush the rebellion and survive. If the syrian rebellion came before the Libyan rebellion, Assad would have been toppled. As it is, he would survive.
Turkey will not topple Assad because Toppling Assad serves western interests and greatly harms Russian interests, right now turkey would want neither.
I am surprised how many people in the west actually think our own propaganda is worth a bucket of spit outside the western world.
