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| Gosh, let me think...ohhhhh I got it...how naive is our press and are our pundits |
Regarding a potential
defusing of the Syrian crisis:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Whether deft diplomacy or a
rhetorical stumble, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has managed to crack
open the door to a possible solution to the Syrian crisis that could get
President Barack Obama and U.S. lawmakers out of a bind, save Syria from a
bombing and cast Russia as peacemaker.
Kerry's seemingly off-hand suggestion on Monday that
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad might avert a U.S. military strike if he
surrendered all of his chemical weapons offered a potential escape hatch that
no one had seriously proposed before - and that could end up leading nowhere.
But in a sign of how desperate the United States,
Russia, Syria and the United Nations are to defuse the international standoff
over Assad's alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria's civil war last month,
momentum for Kerry's suggestion seemed to build instantly.
- Everything that comes out of the
mouth of the President and the Secretary of State at times like this is
gone over word for word by other powers or interested parties.
- Obama and Putin don't really talk at the G20 but their staffs did.
- An agreement without loss of face
is reached among staff.
- Kerry's off-hand remark says
"yeah, we agree" go ahead.
- The Russians, getting the
go-ahead, AFTER telling Syria that this is the way out, formally launch
the plan as a solution.
And there are folks who think that all this is an
accident. OMG