Syria

HOW LONG MUST SYRIANS WAIT?
Richard Cohen
Washington Post, April 30, 2012

“About a month ago the European Union, showing it will not be trifled with, barred Bashar al-Assad’s wife, Asma, and other women in his immediate family from shopping for luxury goods in Europe. For some reason, going cold turkey on Dior, Armani and Prada failed to bring down the Assad regime or to end its vicious attacks on the civilian population.

Tuesday, April 10, 2012 was supposed to mark the beginning of Syria’s implementation of a UN-Arab League brokered peace plan, aimed at halting President Bashar Assad’s yearlong crackdown on anti-regime protests which is estimated to have killed more than 9000 people.

OBAMA AND THE EISENHOWER STANDARD
Fouad Ajami
Wall Street Journal, April 1, 2012

“Army snipers and Shabbiha gunmen posted at strategic points terrorized the population, targeting and killing small children, women and other unarmed civilians.…” (p. 10)

OBAMA URGED TO ACT ON SYRIA
Weekly Standard, February 17, 2012

The following is a letter written by a group of foreign policy professionals
to U.S. President Barack Obama regarding the situation in Syria.

Dear Mr. President:

COTLER’S PLEA ON SYRIA
Editorial
Jerusalem Post, February 5, 2012

The international community has justifiably expressed outrage over Saturday’s veto by Russia and China of a UN Security Council resolution demanding that Syrian President Bashar Assad step down.…

THE ARAB LEAGUE’S FAILED SYRIA MISSION
Kate Seelye
National Interest, January 24, 2012

On Wednesday, Syrian President Bashar Assad appeared in public for the first time since the uprising against his rule began 10 months ago. Addressing a rally in Umayyad Square in Damascus, he pledged to triumph over “terrorism,” the clearest indication to date that he does not intend to surrender power or relax his government’s brutal crackdown on anti-regime protests.

According to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, approximately 70,000 Syrians demonstrated in a large square in the restive city of Homs on Tuesday, as Arab League observers began a visit to the country to monitor a peace deal aimed at ending President Bashar Assad’s deadly nine-month crackdown.