Showing posts with label Bashar al-Assad. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bashar al-Assad. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Thought He WAS An Enemy?

March 31, 2015 Bashar al-Assad , Fox News 0 Comments
Assad 'Open' To Negotiations With US, Says ISIS Strengthening Despite Airstrikes

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By Fox News, Mar. 30, 2015

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said Sunday that he’s "open" to negotiations with the United States and that airstrikes conducted by a U.S.-led coalition in the region are not defeating the Islamic State terror group.

“We didn’t attack the American population. We didn’t support terrorists who did anything in the United States,” Assad told CBS’ "60 Minutes." "We always wanted to have good relation with the United States. We never thought in the other direction.”

Assad was reacting to comments made earlier this month by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in which Kerry said Washington was "working very hard with other interested parties to see if we can reignite a diplomatic outcome ... Because everyone agrees there is no military solution. There is only a political solution."

Assad has presided over Syria during a devastating civil war that has lasted for four years, claimed over 200,000 lives, and seen the rise of jihadist groups like Islamic State, or ISIS. The Obama administration has repeatedly insisted that any solution to the conflict would involve Assad's removal from power.

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Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Good thing Iran doesn't have a nuke...

January 20, 2015 Bashar al-Assad , Hezbollah 0 Comments
Iran General Killed With Hezbollah Fighters In Israel Raid

Sara Hussein and Serene Assir, Jan. 19, 2015, AFP

The attack on Sunday near Quneitra on the Syrian-controlled side of the Golan Heights enraged Hezbollah's supporters, but analysts said the group would avoid a major escalation with Israel.

Once solely focused on fighting Israel, Hezbollah is now deeply involved in the war in neighbouring Syria, where it backs President Bashar al-Assad.

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Tuesday, September 16, 2014

All because Obama "bugged out" of Iraq

September 16, 2014 Bashar al-Assad , ISIS 0 Comments
NBC's Richard Engel: 'Living In Delusion' With ISIS Strategy

 By Real Clear Politics, Sept. 15, 2014, Realclearpolitics.com



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Sunday, August 31, 2014

Cause and effect

Cause and effect

August 31, 2014 "The Cats Round Table" , Bashar al-Assad 0 Comments
Romney: Obama's 'Mistakes' Allowed ISIS To Grow

 By Sandy Fitzgerald, Aug. 31, 2014, Newsmax.com

   

 President Barack Obama's mistakes enabled the rise of the Islamic State (ISIS) and created the immigration crisis at the country's southern border, his 2012 opponent, Mitt Romney, said Sunday in a roundtable radio discussion hosted by John Catsimatidis.

"Mistakes were made and now we have ISIS," Romney told Catsimatidis on "The Cats Round Table" on New York City station WNYM-AM.

 Romney argued that ISIS would not be gaining power if the United States has followed his plan back in 2012 for dealing with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

 "If you go back a few years when Syria fell into revolution and tumult, when rebels were pushing against Assad, I laid out what I thought was a prudent course for us to see stability in Syria," he said. "Had we followed that course, there's a good chance you would not see an ISIS today."

 He said his plan would have done more to back revolutionaries in Syria while ensuring Assad's own tribe, the Alawites, that their future was secure even without him in power.

 "These kind of actions would have stabilized Syria, at least I believe so, and would have prevented the growth of a group like ISIS," Romney said.

He also accused Obama of failing to heed American intelligence about ISIS, saying that the president was told a year ago that the jihadists planned to invade an Iraqi city.

 "We saw ISIS roll into Iraq and, instead of attacking them immediately and knocking them in their convoy when they would have been easy to knock down, relatively easy to knock down, the president again watched," said Romney. "And now we're in a position where ISIS has run throughout major portions of Iraq. There have been horrific human rights abuses, tragedies."

 In addition, Romney took Obama to task for his immigration policies.

 "The president should have enforced our immigration laws from the very beginning," the former Massachusetts governor said. "His announcement of a form of amnesty only encouraged people to continue to flood over the border. The right answer to the immigration crisis would be to secure the border and enact a series of immigration policy reforms instead.

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Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Just tell them the "war on terror" is over

Just tell them the "war on terror" is over

August 26, 2014 al Qaeda , Bashar al-Assad 0 Comments
WH Struggles With Message Sn ISIS Threat

 By Kristina Wong and Niall Stanage, Aug. 25, 2014, Thehill.com



The White House is struggling to deliver a clear message on the threat posed by the radical Islamist group ISIS and what the administration might do to counteract it.

Officials have sowed confusion by giving different statements at different times on the level of danger posed by the Islamic group, whose full name is the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.

Obama’s decision last year to ask Congress for authority to level Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces with airstrikes is also haunting the administration as it mulls strikes in Syria against ISIS. There have been no guarantees that similar congressional approval will be sought this time around.

White House press secretary Josh Earnest was peppered with questions on the issue Monday. Referring to the proposed strikes against the Assad regime last year, Earnest responded, “That was a different situation, right?”

But he said little that was definitive about whether attacks against ISIS in Syria are now being considered. Any such action would represent a major escalation from the current situation, in which the U.S. is carrying out airstrikes against ISIS positions in northwestern Iraq.

Strikes within Syria would not merely represent a significant ramping up of U.S, military action. They would also risk providing de facto assistance to the Assad regime, even while the United States hopes that government will be deposed.

The issue of congressional approval for strikes inside Syria was given another twist late on Monday when Sen. Tim Kaine (Va.), a Democrat known to be close to Obama, issued a statement insisting that “I do not believe that our expanded military operations against ISIL are covered under existing authorizations from Congress.”

Kaine added that he was “encouraged by reports that indicate administration officials have signaled that seeking Congressional authorization for U.S. military action against ISIL is being considered.”

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Monday, May 19, 2014

Kerry: ‘We’re Not Going To Pin Ourselves Down’ If Assad Continues To Use Chemical Weapons --A flip from last year

May 19, 2014 Bashar al-Assad , Chemical Weapons 0 Comments
By Douglas Ernst, May 16, 2014, Washingtontimes.com

“We’re not going to pin ourselves down,” was Secretary of State John Kerry’s response in London on Thursday to a reporter who asked what the U.S. would do if it were confirmed that the Assad regime recently used chlorine-based chemical weapons in Syria.

Mr. Kerry’s rhetoric while at a “Friends of Syria” meeting, a collection of 11 foreign ministers, was in stark contrast to his position in August 2013, when he said “history would judge us all extraordinarily harshly if we turned a blind eye to a dictator’s wanton use of weapons of mass destruction against all warnings, against all common understanding of decency.”

The Weekly Standard noted on Friday that in September 2013, Mr. Kerry said Assad’s use of chemical weapons was the “straw that broke the camel’s back,” which would require a military strike as punishment.

Faced with growing evidence that the Syrian regime is again using chemical weapons, Mr. Kerry told those the reporter in front of the London 11 on Thursday: “We’re not going to pin ourselves down to a precise time, date, manner of action, but there will be consequences if it were to be proven, including, I might say, things that are way beyond our control and have nothing to do with us. But the International Criminal Court and others are free to hold him accountable. […] So one way or the other, there will be accountability.”

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