US considers Syria policy as John Kerry seeks ways to help civil war rebels

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Source: The Guardian

National security advisers met in Washington on Wednesday, to consider what further steps the US can take to help Syria's struggling rebel groups.

Amid fears of a new Syrian government offensive against the rebel-held city of Aleppo, the British foreign secretary, William Hague, warned that the prospects of a negotiated solution to the conflict were fading unless help was given to counter mounting Iranian involvement in the war.

But the US secretary of state, John Kerry, who discussed Syrian options at a bilateral meeting with Hague in Washington, said the White House had not yet made a decision on greater intervention. President Barack Obama was not present at the national security meeting, as he was travelling on Democratic party business.

"People are talking about what further options might be exercised here," said Kerry in a press conference following the meeting with Hague. "We obviously had some discussions about that too but we have no announcements to make today."

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/12/us-syria-policy-john-kerry

[ProgressiveChristian]

1. The question should be

should we be helping the rebels ??

[JI7]

2. this is a shitty situation but Assad just may be the better one

than if the current rebels were to take control.

[John2]

3. I don't buy

none of the rhetoric from the West. It reminds me of the Reagan/Thatcher years. President Obama sure had a man crush on Reagan and just gave Thatcher high praise as defenders of Democracy. I think Hague and his current Prime Minister is cut right out of the same conservative cloth.

I don't buy his rhetoric about pointing out Iran's support of Syria's Assad, while at the same time he doesn't mention, Saudi Arabia and Qatar's support of the rebels. Turkey's Prime Minister was their lead Bull Dog, but I guess he is kinda an embarrassment now when it comes to attacking his own people.

I'm going to do something totally different on this Forum and cut through the propaganda of demonization. Syria was always in a State of Emergency, ever since Assad's father pulled off a coup in that country. Religious extremists were always against his secular Government, and the History of Syria indicates, he ruthlessly put down dissent by imprisoning and killing thousands of Syrians. You did not hear a peep from the United States, Britain, France, or the West at that time for regime change.

So these uprisings have been common throughout Syrian History, ever since they gained Independence. So now why the demonization of Assad's Western Educated son? You have not heard a peep from his wife, whom is a Sunni, but was raised and educated in Britain. Her family comes from the Homs area. The West has demonized her now. Could it be, they both took up the cause of Arabs against Israel? In taking up that cause, they supported groups like Hezbullah, and it has nothing to do with Syrians at all. So why all of a sudden the interest in human rights of Arabs by the West? I think it is phony. So when will they start demonizing me for asking these questions, because I wouldn't put it pass, their deception.

[ForeignandDomestic]

4. Tssk...

Here's the truth Saudia Arabia regime is the biggest financial backer and supporter of jihadist terrorism in the entire Middle East, heck the 19 hijackers were from there. Ironically the Saudi's are the best pals of the West in the whole region.

We're currently backing the terrorist in Syria trying to overthrow the Assad regime, tells you all you need to know about this war on terrorism.. This whole thing starting in Egypt, Libya, and now Syria, soon to be Iran was orchestrated by the West with the help of their bedfellows the Saudi's to destabilize the region.

The American people better wake up and wake up now to the fascist Military Industrial Octopus that has hijacked our government and is attempting to reach out its tentacles and swallow the whole globe.