Sixty-three protesters were murdered throughout Syria yesterday by Assad's security forces, but mostly in Hama, in the worst outbreak of violence since the beginning of unrest in this country. The horror came as no surprise (see: http://jgcaesarea.blogspot.com/2011/05/civil-war-in-syria-beginning-of-end-for.html).
Homework: Go the website of the U.S. Embassy in Damascus, Syria (http://damascus.usembassy.gov/). Although there is a very lovely picture of Ambassador Robert Ford, do you see any mention of the violence sweeping Syria?
Now click on "News & Events" in this website. Do you see any mention of unrest? I don't. Sickening.
Bypassing Senate confirmation and seeking to avoid public scrutiny by acting while many were on holiday, Obama appointed Robert Ford as ambassador to Syria at the end of December 2010 (see: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/29/AR2010122904168.html). It's high time for Obama to acknowledge his mistake in reaching out to the world's most barbarous regimes and immediately recall Ambassador Ford.
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What is this special status that Obama bestows on Syria?
ReplyDeleteAnd why does the State Department deem it necessary to protect the killers in Damascus? Damascus, the viper's nest for regional terror, Damascus who regards Lebanon as its province and not as a legitimate independent state (for close to 40 years they have not had even have an ambassador to Lebanon), Damascus who wins brownie points by double-speak. It's high time for the Teheran-Damascus-Nasrallah axis to be cut. How is it that the US president fails to recognize that this is not only morally imperative but also in its interest?