“A Plea for Caution From Russia”; That was the title of my op-ed, published in Thursday’s New York Times. Yes, the op-ed that went right into Barack Obama’s face. I started the op-ed by talking up the importance of peace. As
According to the New York Times, in a just-announced deal with the Russians, the United States has agreed to give Syria until the middle of 2014 to destroy or remove its chemical weapons. Should the Assad regime fail to comply,
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com: Syria discussion on Framingham Mass. TV on Sunday Ban Ki-moon accidentally tells the truth about Syria Russia elated by its diplomatic victory on Syria Reports: Assad’s troops dispersing them throughout Syria The Way the
By BRADLEY KLAPPERAssociated PressWASHINGTONAfter 2 1/2 years of civil war in Syria, President Barack Obama’s larger policy is in disarray even as his administration, with help from Russia, averted a military showdown for the time being. In an address to
Barack Obama follows up last Saturday’s presidential address, which pushed Congress to authorize military strikes against Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, with a softer tone stressing a diplomatic resolution. However, Obama does credit his talk tough for Russia taking the lead
(AP) MOSCOWRussia’s top investigative agency says 37 people have died in a fire in a Russian psychiatric hospital. The fire in the one-story hospital in the village of Luka in the northwestern Novgorod region erupted around 3 a.m. Friday and quickly
Oct 22, 2012 President Barack Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney Romney: “Excuse me. It’s a geopolitical foe, and I said in the same — in the same paragraph I said, and Iran is the greatest national security threat we
The supreme commander of the Free Syrian Army, Brigadier General Salim Idris, said during a Skpe interview by MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell that Kerry had assured him that military strikes remain on the table if the Russia deal falls through…
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney Today commenting on the Syrian conflict
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad said he would only finalise plans to abandon his chemical arsenal when the United States stopped threatening to attack him, in an interview broadcast on Thursday. Syria applied on Thursday to sign up to
On Thursday, President Obama announced that he would focus again on the economy, even as Syria continued its aggressive activity, Russia continued to mock the Obama administration, and the Obama administration itself continued its chaotic strategy with regard to the
Destroying Syria’s chemical weapons under a Russian plan would be “immensely difficult” and may do little to end the conflict there, the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) said on Thursday. Russia and Iran would have to play a role
On Thursday, as the Obama administration struggles to deal with breaking reports of another possible Syrian chemical attack in Damascus, The New York Times reports that satellite photos show steam coming from a newly retrofitted nuclear reactor in North Korea.
According to Syrian rebels, on Thursday, the Assad regime launched another gas attack in Damascus. Rebels said that the attack happened in the Jobar area of Damascus, and that they did not know the nature of the chemical weapons, but
(AP) Kerry set to test Russia on Syria weaponsBy MATTHEW LEEAP Diplomatic WriterGENEVAU.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Geneva Thursday morning to test the seriousness of a Russian proposal to secure Syria’s chemical weapons. Kerry and a team
Claiming a desire to “speak directly to the American people and their political leaders, Russian President Vladimir Putin has penned an op-ed for the New York Times. He calls it: A Plea for Caution From Russia. No one doubts that poison
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Sept. 10 (UPI) — Russia’s ploy to defuse the Syrian crisis–persuading Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to turn over his chemical weapons to avert a U.S. attack–will likely end in an embarrassment for U.S. President Barack Obama and
On Wednesday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) claimed that President Obama’s massive backtrack on action against Syria pending attempted negotiation with allies of the Assad regime Russia and China had made the Syrian rebels feel “abandoned.” “I was very disappointed that
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), delivering a prepared rebuttal to President Barack Obama’s address to the nation on the Syria crisis Tuesday night, said that only opposition to war had made a diplomatic solution possible. It was the mirror image of
(AP) Bach elected IOC president, gets call from PutinBy STEPHEN WILSONAP Sports WriterBUENOS AIRES, ArgentinaWithin minutes of being elected to the top job in the Olympics, Thomas Bach got a phone call from a powerful leader he’ll work with closely
On Tuesday night, as President Obama caved completely to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the media came to Obama’s defense. Instead of Putin playing Obama for a fool, as it appeared this week, Obama had actually
Fox News anchor Shepard Smith discussing Syria and Russia’s dramatic developments of the day…
Secretary of State John Kerry told viewers of a Google+ hangout on Tuesday that intelligence suggests that countries who have been supportive of the Assad regime would not consider retaliation in their best interests. Kerry said that Iran and the
In the midst of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime accepting Russia’s proposal to confiscate its chemical weapons and place them under the the control of the international community to prevent a U.S. strike on the middle eastern country, members of Congress
On Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin explained that the Russian proposal agreed to by Syria to turn over Syria’s chemical weapons to international control could not succeed unless the US rejected the use of force. The proposal “can work only
