yallasouriya 4:57 pm on June 6, 2013 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment On #Syria, John Kerry is left out on a limb The effectiveness of the Obama administration’s strategy in Syria is dependent on there being a good relationship between President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry. While nothing suggests there are problems on that front, Obama has limited interest in the matter that preoccupies the secretary most today: Syria. Earlier this week, after meeting with Poland’s foreign minister, Kerry commented on efforts to hold an international conference on Syria in Geneva: “This is a very difficult process, which we come to late.” To many this was implicit criticism of the administration’s repeated efforts to avoid engaging with the Syrian crisis. Kerry added, “We are trying to prevent the sectarian violence from dragging Syria down into a complete and total implosion where it has broken up into enclaves, and the institutions of the state have been destroyed, with God knows how many additional refugees and how many innocent people killed.” This breakdown has been going on for over two years, and has been characterized by all the alarming elements Kerry described. For him to suddenly outline the dangers seemed more a subtle criticism of how the Syrian situation was allowed to reach such a stage than acknowledgement of a fundamentally new approach in Washington. Read more: dailystar.lb/Opinion/Columnist/2013/Jun-06/219563-on-syria-john-kerry-is-left-out-on-a-limb.ashx#ixzz2VQ9XT9Ev (The Daily Star :: Lebanon News :: dailystar.lb
Posted on: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 09:54:32 +0000
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