Bashar Assad has been cracking down on anti-regime protests in Syria. So far no condemnation from the “International Community”. Although the protesters are Muslim Brotherhood led, should not the same standard that applies to Libya apply to Syria? Not according to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the U.S. won’t enter into the internal conflict in Syria the way it has in Libya.
“No,” Clinton said, when asked on the CBS “Face the Nation” program if the U.S. would intervene in Syria’s unrest. Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad’s security forces clashed with protesters in several cities yesterday after his promises of freedoms and pay increases failed to prevent dissent from spreading across the country.
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“What’s been happening there the last few weeks is deeply concerning, but there’s a difference between calling out aircraft and indiscriminately strafing and bombing your own cities,” Clinton said, referring to Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi’s attacks on the Libyan people, “than police actions which, frankly, have exceeded the use of force that any of us would want to see.”
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The real difference between Assad and Qaddafi is obvious. Col. Mumar Qaddafi gave up his WMD’s, paid money to the Lockerbie bombing victims and was assisting the US against AL-Qaeda. Bashar Assad is allied with Iran, enabled AL-Qaeda to kill Americans in Syria, is assisting the oppression of Maronite Christians in Lebanon, is friends with John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi and is admired by the 3rd World Liberation Movement. In short, Syria has the right friends, Qaddafi didn’t. That’s the difference between the 2 situations.
Update: Another reason Syria is different is because it’s an enemy of Israel.
“There are claims against Iraq, which proved to be bonkers, but only after a terrible war,” ElBaradei said after the US and its allies questioned Syria’s right to his agency’s help in planning a power-producing atomic reactor.
