Tag Archive | Obama
For Barack Obama, Syria is best forgotten this election year
The ordeal of Syria has been a rebuttal of what the diplomacy of Barack Obama once promised and stood for. It is largely forgotten now that Syria and Iran were the two regimes in the Greater Middle East that Obama had promised to “engage.”
Do not rule out military action in Syria
Over the past few months analysts and commentators in and outside the US have been busy trying to determine whether the Obama administration will or will not intervene in Syria before the November 2012 US presidential elections.
McCain calls for U.S. military leadership on Syria
Washington (CNN) — Sen. John McCain called Monday for the United States to lead a military coalition to help the Syrian opposition rid the country of President Bashar al-Assad.
John McCain says US should be ‘ashamed’ of inaction over Syria conflict
John McCain said that the US should not allow Moscow and Beijing to stand in the way of intervention. Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images Senator John McCain has accused Barack Obama of a “disgraceful” abandonment of Syria’s revolutionaries, and called on the US administration to defy Russian objections and arm Bashar al-Assad’s opponents.
For Obama, intervening in Syria would be good policy and good politics
The Obama administration’s approach to Syria is little more than this sort of hand-wringing, which plays to Bashar al-Assad’s regime as tacit permission to continue killing thousands.
Syrian Affairs 