(September 12, 2013 at 7:25 am)festive1 Wrote: It's a weird feeling when you find yourself agreeing with a foreign leader in such ways... But Putin NAILS it: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/opinio...p&_r=1&
I still think everything is coming up Putin currently...
A pathetic plea by a sociopath. The man is a thug and no matter how nice the pressreleases designated to be published in the west may sound, this will not change the fact that Russia is supporting the Syrian goverment and not international law. No public official in the western hemisphere is in any way proposing support of suni fundermentalist elemts. Putin is merely smearing honey arround the mouths of readers who have already made up their minds. The resolvement of this conflict in a way which benefits Russia will certainly not add in even the slightest way to the resolvement of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict let alone to the Iranian nuclear problem. If there is no intervention or no consequence for the use of chemical weapons, it is more of an encouragement for Iran to proceed with it`s nuclear program since it can further expect to not confront reprisals. And the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has absolutly nothing to do with the matter. The Arab league has expelled Syria, the Syrian goverment has absolutly no leverage and anything to say in the resolving of that conflict. The situation in Iraq still is bad, but Syria is not Iraq. Other than the Tuarek rebellion in Mali was without any doubt caused by the intervention in Lybia, but that rebellion was succesfully quelled by the French army. And the situation in Lybia is not as bad as alot of people want to paint it. The muslim brotherhood was almoust completly rejected during the elections, Lybia has not given up democracy unlike Egypt and the countrys goverment has certainly not splitt up into shattered pieces which control one region after another in the form of tribes. To mention the UN security council is lame. The security council is structured as a democratic institution, a democratic institution requires democratic participants, Russia is not a democratic participant. Other than that there is no evidence which in any way proves that the chemical weapons were used by the opposition. The indications all lead to the Syrian goverment. The missles carrying the chemicals were fired from areas controlled by the regime, troops surrounding the erea where the missles hit started wearing gasmasks shortly before the attack took place, the erea which was hit was mostly in opposition hands. The Syrian goverment has constantly kept a very tight grip on it`s chemical arsenal, at one point even alegedly trying to transport them into Lebanon. Other than that, the Rebells lack the suffistication to gain a scud missle and the launcher needed for a scud missle, let alone the capacities to arm a scud missle with a chemical warhead and to aim it at one very destinctive erea. The theory that the missles were launched by overly aggressive officers of Assads army without the approval of Assad is plausible.
To simply rely on a conspiracy which is based on "feelings" about war and some mysterious theory over how the goverment manipulates the free press, will not make the various indications that point to the Syrian goverment go away. And an article writen by Putin, will not change the fact that the man is a sociopath who has brutaly cracked down on every single form of opposition and dissent ever since he started his career as a KGB agent whos job it was to hunt soviet soldiers who tried to desert into the west.
