Syria: Hillary Never Played Poker

Hillary Clinton has announced that she will not be serving as Secretary of State if Obama is reelected and has recently been complaining that she is surrounded in the Obama administration by a bevy of foreign policy neophytes. However, Hillary has once again demonstrated that she is also no repository of diplomatic sagacity. In an interview with CBS News (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/27/ftn/main20047627.shtml), Hillary has informed Syrian tyrant Bashar al-Assad that the U.S. will not intervene even if his security forces continue to murder civilians:

"Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said this weekend that the U.S. was not currently poised to send U.S. military forces into Syria, noting that while 'we deplore the violence in Syria,' the situation there could not be equated to that of Libya.

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'There is a different leader in Syria now, many of the members of Congress of both parties who have gone to Syria in recent months have said they believe he's a reformer,' Clinton said."

Yeah, right, Assad is a real "reformer". Just ask Bashar's friend, Senator John Kerry.

However, before reaching conclusions, you might also want to ask the opinion - if you could - of the thousands of political prisoners rotting in Syrian prisons. Even Human Rights Watch has acknowledged that Syria's record on freedom and human rights has not improved since Bashar came to power (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/16/syrian-human-rights-unchanged-assad).