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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Arab States Divided, Powerless over U.S. Strikes on Syria
2013-09-01
[An Nahar] Divided over a conflict they failed to resolve diplomatically, Arab countries are powerless observers of possible U.S. strikes on Syria not designed to achieve what most of them want -- Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
The Scourge of Hama...
's downfall.

"The Arab countries are weak, preoccupied by their own internal affairs. Some of them care little about what will happen in Syria," said Emirati analyst Abdelkhaleq Abdallah.

"They are angry at the attitude of the international community which (they feel) has betrayed the Syrian people, but also by the fact that an Arab country is being targeted in unilateral strikes, without U.N. approval."

The Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
, which suspended Syria's membership in November 2011 and gave its seat to the main opposition group, has squarely accused the Assad regime of carrying out a chemical weapons attack in Damascus last week that killed hundreds.

U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
cited the pan-Arab body on Friday among a list of allies "ready to respond" to the chemicals weapons attack.

But influential League members, including Egypt, Algeria, Iraq, Leb and Tunisia, have expressed opposition to foreign military intervention in Syria.
Posted by:Fred

#2  Exactly. Cognitive dissonance meets the big river.
Posted by: Shipman   2013-09-01 15:09  

#1  "The Arab countries are weak, preoccupied by their own internal affairs. Some of them care little about what will happen in Syria... They are angry at the attitude of the international community which (they feel) has betrayed the Syrian people, but also by the fact that an Arab country is being targeted in unilateral strikes, without U.N. approval."

Behold the Arab mind.
Posted by: Pappy   2013-09-01 08:32  

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