IS HILLARY’S ENGAGEMENT WITH ASSAD BROKEN?
Which part of the new “positive, constructive U.S.-Syrian relationship” involves having the US Secretary of State getting publicly mocked by grinning totalitarian thugs?
President Bashar al-Assad and his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad signed a bilateral deal to remove travel visas and attended a Muslim ceremony in the Syrian capital… “We must have understood Clinton wrong because of bad translation or our limited understanding, so we signed the agreement to cancel the visas,” Assad said. “I find it strange that they (Americans) talk about Middle East stability and peace and the other beautiful principles and call for two countries to move away from each other,” he added. Ahmadinejad told a joint news conference: “Clinton said we should maintain a distance. I say there is no distance between Iran and Syria.” He added: “We have the same goals, same interests and same enemies.”
Interesting bit about enemies at the end. If Khamenei had recently and officially emphasized that the US was an enemy of Iran, that would be even more troubling than Assad’s sneering jokes about bad translations.
In any case – very disappointing. Sure Assad rebuffed Obama’s craven obsequiousness – six high-level delegations to Syria, promises to restore relations, waivers for aircraft parts, deals worth billions in cash, and so on. And sure he’s exporting jihadism across the Middle East, financing among others the AQI cretins trying to reignite the insurgency. And sure his interference in Iraq got so severe that the Iraqis appealed directly to the UN. And sure he just threatened to saturation bomb Israeli civilians. And sure he’s reestablishing Syria’s stranglehold on Lebanon, having forced Hariri to capitulate.. And sure he’s extending his strategy of building multiple, redundant nuclear sites.
But I really thought he’d come around this time.
Guess not.
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