Putin just dumped the Syrian civil war into Obama’s lap. I guess Vlad did not take too kindly waiting until November for Obama’s reelection for future direction from the bear. Why does this hand the election over to Romney? Obama has two choices:
1. Put Valerie Jarrett’s right to protect policy where it belongs and admit that Libya’s kinetic action was not justified. This option makes Obama and Hillary look likes fools for foreign affairs on center stage.
2. Keep arming the rebels which means supporting Al Qaeda.The resulting flow of weapons of mass destruction into terrorist hands when the rebels win will make Obama and Hillary look likes fools for foreign affairs on center stage.
Either way, Obama looks like a fool, Putin wins (again), Syria loses and Romney has another great campaign issue. At this point, you almost have to feel sorry for Obama: he could not even give Syria to Putin. Well that thought did not last too long.
David DeGerolamo
Russia and Iran back away from the Syrian conflict, dump it in America’s lap
After the hopeless gridlock at the special UN session on the Syrian crisis Thursday, an American delegation headed by Fred Hoff, the Secretary of State’s special adviser on Syria, drew a blank in the talks it conducted at the Russian Foreign Ministry in Moscow Friday, June 8, with Syrian expert, Mikhail Bogdanov.
DEBKAfile’s Moscow sources report exclusively that Moscow has flatly rejected President Barack Obama’s proposal to post 5,000 armed UN monitors in Syria, most of them Russian troops, as the core of a new plan to resolve the Syrian crisis. The Russians may consider convening an international conference, but only if its remit is limited to offering a basis for negotiations between the Assad regime and the opposition and new political reforms. On no account must it deal with Bashar Assad’s removal.
Moscow’s position has grown tougher in the last few days. After Russian officials stated this week that keeping the Assad regime in power was not a priority, Bogdanev said Friday: Moscow isn’t discussing ways to promote Bashar al-Assad’s ouster with Washington. “We aren’t holding such talks.”
He stressed that the only way forward on the Syrian issue was by expanding Annan’s peace plan.
However, the only thing that all the participants at the UN could agree on was that the Annan peace plan had failed. And now that the US mission to Moscow has run into another dead end, the violence in Syria will continue to run riot with no world power or body prepared to step in and stop it.
Adding to the complications, the Syrian conflict and the Iranian nuclear controversy are becoming inextricably intermeshed. The US official Hoff knew he was arriving in Moscow at a grave disadvantage after Iran indicated to the six world powers that it was seriously considering not turning up for their third round of nuclear talks in Moscow on June 18-19.
Its pretext: The West had failed to come up with “serious proposals.”
