Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was active in bringing together what now amounts to the 60 nation "Friends of Syria". This group is currently moving forward in opposition to the Assad Regime. They call in the most part for an end to that regime. But we remember that Assad still has friends in the region; Russia and China are not ready to support regime change from outside forces. The key players in Syria are the U.S., Israel, Turkey, Russia, Iran and the Arab League. At this time, France and Britain are somewhat less involved.
Speaking from Beirut, Syrian President Assad asserts his determination to go on fighting, in his words, foreign backed terrorism, "The Syrian people, who have in the past managed to crush foreign plots, ... have again proven their ability to defend the nation and to build a new Syria through their determination to pursue reforms while confronting foreign-backed terrorism."
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1 - Glenn Contrarian
The Republicans apparently have only one tool - the hammer - and so when there's injustice in the world, that's all they know how to use. You'd think they'd have learned from Libya and the rest of the Arab Spring that there's more than one way to get something done.
2 - Cannonshop
#1 Obviously nobody's learning anything from the results of "Arab Spring" or they'd realize the best course, is to stay out of it and let the locals sort their own shit for themselves. We really do NOT need to step in and help remove a secular dictatorship in favour of a Theocratic Oligarchy that is, if not equally unfriendly, likely worse.