Trump administration not sending a delegation to Syria peace talks

[deminks]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-administration-not-sending-a-delegation-to-syria-peace-talks/2017/01/21/7e42cc5c-dff8-11e6-ad42-f3375f271c9c_story.html?utm_term=.ac48bc3a2b34

The Trump administration will not send a delegation to next week’s Syrian peace talks, sponsored by Russia, Turkey and Iran, because of the “immediate demands of the transition,” the State Department said Saturday.

Russia’s ambassador to the United States had personally invited President Trump’s national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, to the meeting, scheduled to begin Monday in Kazakhstan’s capital, Astana. The Obama administration was not invited.

“The United States is committed to a political resolution to the Syrian crisis through a Syrian-owned process, which can bring about a more representative, peaceful, and united Syria,” acting State Department spokesman Mark Toner said in a statement. It said that the U.S. ambassador to Kazakhstan would attend as an observer.

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[MBS]

1. The sheet incompetence of this administration is staggering. n/t

[underpants]

2. They haven't filled the positions or kept up to date

Just wait unti the first toner cartridge runs out - it will be bedlam

[Solly Mack]

3. Well I'm sure Trump feels Russia will speak for us.

[Vinca]

4. That might well be it. He's stepping aside to let Vlad run the show.

[Solly Mack]

11. I was joking - sorta.

[Vinca]

13. I wasn't.

Watch to see if he withdraws recently installed U.S. troops from countries bordering Russia.

[Solly Mack]

14. I am.

[deminks]

5. Yes, to quote SNL 'Putin's got this'

I think we just handed Syria to the Russians.

[Solly Mack]

12. Wouldn't surprise me.

But I was being somewhat facetious. Except with Trump...you know.

[liberal N proud]

6. Putin?

[procon]

7. Can't do multitasking. Check.

Doesn't bode well for someone who claims he's smarter than everyone e!se. Wonder if he can walk and cheerful at the same time?

[Tanuki]

8. "The immediate demands of the transition" is no excuse.

He has had two and a half months to get things up and running, and could have done so if he had not squandered his time with a self-aggrandizing victory lap tour, stewing over SNL and other TV programs, and wearing his already tiny thumbs down to the nubs with his mindless tweets. This weak, ineffectual man is a national embarrassment. Can anyone imagine Hillary Clinton failing to meet her first international obligation in this pathetically incompetent manner, much less offering such a whiny, dog-ate-my-homework excuse?

[Freethinker65]

9. So basically "NOT ready on day one"

[Turbineguy]

10. Putin will send

one for us.

And they can stand down the honeytrap for Flynn.