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| Obama Says Syrian War not Likely to End Before he Leaves Office |
| 2015-05-17 |
[AnNahar] S. President Barack ObamaI mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money... said Friday that the war in Syria would not likely end before he leaves office in early 2017 and reaffirmed his belief that there is no "military solution" to the conflict. "The situation in Syria is heartbreaking but it's extremely complex" Obama said in an interview with the Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya television network. Asked if the conflict, which has left more than 220,000 people dead, might be resolved before he ends his second term, Obama responded "probably not." "You have a civil war in a country that arises out of longstanding grievances" he said. "It was not something that was triggered by the United States and it was not something that could have been stopped by the United States," he said, adding that "all too often in the Middle East region, people attribute everything to the United States." Obama emphasized that settling the conflict would require the cooperation of Gulf allies and other regional nations such as ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , but that "a military solution is not going to be the solution." He reiterated that it makes more sense to work with those countries, instead of engaging them "unilaterally." At the beginning of May, officials announced that the U.S. military had begun training a small unit of "moderate" Syrian rebels in Jordan to return home and take on the might of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... . |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #5 Know Arabs, no peace. No Arabs, know peace. |
| Posted by: Devo 2015-05-17 21:05 |
| #4 For that matter, ever. Edward, one day we (in Israel) will get tired of our Arab neighbors. And then Peace will reign. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-05-17 12:57 |
| #3 "Obama Says Syrian War not Likely to End Before he Leaves Office" For that matter, ever. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2015-05-17 11:16 |
| #2 Only if he's a (D), P2K. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2015-05-17 08:34 |
| #1 Who bitched about being left to clean up the mess of his predecessor? Can the next Prez spend the next 6,8 years blaming you too? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-05-17 06:59 |