On 9/10/13 8:40 AM, Marv Gandall wrote: > Was a Syria-Russia Deal in the Works Before Kerry’s Gaffe? By Joshua > Keating Slate.com September 9 2013 > > http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_world_/2013/09/09/obama_on_syria_russia_chemical_weapons_deal_was_it_in_the_works_before_today.html > > In an interview with CNN tonight, President Obama called a > Russian-proposed deal for Syria to give up its nuclear weapons a > “potentially positive” development and while he expressed some > skepticism, suggested it was a possible diplomatic breakthrough:
All this was completely predictable: http://louisproyect.org/2013/08/26/world-war-three/ Like most people favorably inclined toward Bashar al-Assad, Alan Freeman is convinced that the chemical weapons attack on Damascus neighborhoods is being exploited by imperialism to launch an Iraqi-style invasion. Some “anti-imperialists” are convinced that the rebels killed these civilians in order to provide a casus belli that would allow Obama to launch “World War 3”. Prior to the invasion of Iraq, top officials of the Bush administration were going on TV for months in order to pave the way for an invasion. So who is the Colin Powell of today trying to unleash the dogs of war? One would suspect that General Martin E. Dempsey, the 18th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, would be playing that role today. For someone cast in Slim Pickens’s role of B-52 pilot Major T.J. “King” Kong in Stanley Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove”, Dempsey sounds much more like someone speaking at an ANSWER rally than any warmonger: Even the Putin press figured it out, if people like Alan Freeman remain clueless: USA disavows all Syrian rebels. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey said that the Syrian rebels could not promote U.S. interests at this stage. The “Hawk” who recently proposed five options of Syrian intervention has surrendered. The statement marked the position of the military that do not recommend a direct U.S. involvement in the conflict in Syria. Full: http://english.pravda.ru/world/asia/26-08-2013/125492-usa_syrian_rebels-0/ _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
