Obama blowing off Syria
On Sunday, I reported that the United States may be 'disengaging' from Syria. Now, top US diplomat Jeffrey Feltman has made some blunt comments that make it seem that President Obama's attempts to romance Bashar al-Assad are over. Jeffrey D. Feltman, the assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs, told the Washington Post Tuesday, “Syria has said that it wishes to have its territorial expectations met through a peace agreement with Israel and that Syria recognizes the essential role that we can play in achieving that… But our interest in a comprehensive peace doesn't mean that we are going to start trading our other interests in Iraq or Lebanon in order to get Damascus to like us better."Bye bye Bashar. It's long overdue.
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His statements to the Washington Post made it clear that the Obama administration is holding the Golan Heights, which Syria occupied until the Six-Day War in 1967, as a bargaining card. The area includes vast water resources and the Hermon Mountains, a key observation post and military assets. It overlooks Israeli communities around the Sea of Galilee and before the 1967 war, children in the area slept in shelters as there was constant Syrian shelling of their homes from the Heights.
Feltman said that ‘Syria’s friends are undermining stability in Lebanon….There is a cost to the potential in our bilateral relationship to what Syria's friends are doing in Lebanon."
Labels: Bashar al-Assad, Golan Heights, Jeffrey Feltman, Syria
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:21 PM
1 Comments:
There going to be scant support in the new GOP-led US House Of Representatives for any continued US "engagement" with Syria.
Obama has read the election returns. And its one for which the chinless ophthalmologist who heads the Syrian regime has contempt.
The less the US romances its enemies, the more it can stop actions on their part that endanger its vital interests.
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