Hey Hilary, don’t forget to tell the Bahranis to step down too while your at it! Oh, and tell our Saudi friends it’s not nice to invade another country that has not attacked you. Ooops, sounds a little familiar doesn’t it?

I guess George W was wrong again.
“Fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again.”

Americans are buying precisely the same agitprop they bought prior to the Iraq War. Syrian Nukes, killing his own people, even a kidnapped lesbian blogger (who turned out to be a bearded Scotsman).

Go find one MSM report of Syrian casualties that does not contain the phrase “activists said”.

Then go get the news about the London riots exclusively from the looters and see how accurate that is.

Here’s a sample of reportage from Sky:

“The assault prompted opposition gunmen to fire machine guns and set police stations on fire. ”

Eh? These “activists” had machine guns they were “prompted” to use?

“Honest, I always take my my machine gun to peaceful protests. Its a fashion accessory!”

There is a sponsored insurrection going on.

“U.S. secretly backed Syrian opposition groups, cables released by WikiLeaks show”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/us-secretly-backed-syrian-opposition-groups-cables-released-by-wikileaks-show/2011/04/14/AF1p9hwD_story.html

More than 500 security personnel have been killed so far.

When the great powers carved up the Ottoman Empire (which had existed for 1300 years by leaving ethnic and religious divides alone) they lumped heterogeneous peoples together under colonial rule. Successive governments have had to try to bring both unity and democracy to these tribally mixed populaces. Syria, probably the most problematic, has made great strides but it is still very easy to stir the pot.

In other news.
Libya and Syria have acknowledged the London rioters as the legitimate government of Great Britain.

Does this mean we might be enjoying yet another war kinetic action?

I wish somweone would tell Obuma to step down

Since any statement from the U.S. is bound to bring mixed reactions forth (pro and anti US) and since such statements from us always come off as more heavy-handed than helpful, and subject to misunderstandings due to our feckless policies in the Middle East and elsewhee, it might be better to
start signing on to such statements coming out of the United Nations, joining with other nations that have less trouble relations and are therefore less suspect of manipulating one side or another.