Obama Has Asked the Syrians to Suffer
Published in Kommersant-Vlast'
(Russia) on 23 July 2012
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(Russia) on 23 July 2012
by (link to original)
Translated from
by Molly Brean.
Edited by Laurence Bouvard.
Last week, Barack Obama yet again found himself in an awkward if not indecent situation when it was revealed that the United States will not provide Syrian resistance with any material assistance in the fight against Bashar al-Assad’s regime before the November elections. This information came to light during the course of recent American diplomatic visits to Great Britain and several EU countries, meant to familiarize European governments with the U.S. position on Syria.
In fact, this means that the Assad regime, with the support of its allies in Moscow and Beijing, still has a few months to suppress the rebellion in the country. If the Syrian forces succeed, by the time Obama decides to come out in full support of those who disagree with the Assad regime, there will be no one left to protect. According to one expert, this decision is yet another instance of how Obama has time and again shown his willingness to throw allies under the bus if they might somehow interfere with his career.
This is not the first time that Obama has delayed the resolution of important foreign policy issues “until after the election.” In a meeting with the then President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev in March of this year, Obama begged his Russian colleague to wait “until after the election” with questions about the development of the American missile defense system in Europe. Unfortunately, Obama and Medvedev spoke to one another assuming that their microphones had been turned off (they had not), and the conversation was heard by the entire room of journalists.
In fact, this means that the Assad regime, with the support of its allies in Moscow and Beijing, still has a few months to suppress the rebellion in the country. If the Syrian forces succeed, by the time Obama decides to come out in full support of those who disagree with the Assad regime, there will be no one left to protect. According to one expert, this decision is yet another instance of how Obama has time and again shown his willingness to throw allies under the bus if they might somehow interfere with his career.
This is not the first time that Obama has delayed the resolution of important foreign policy issues “until after the election.” In a meeting with the then President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev in March of this year, Obama begged his Russian colleague to wait “until after the election” with questions about the development of the American missile defense system in Europe. Unfortunately, Obama and Medvedev spoke to one another assuming that their microphones had been turned off (they had not), and the conversation was heard by the entire room of journalists.