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- Der Speigel: “Syrian President Bashar Assad is driving away his own people, say refugees who have fled into Turkey. Eyewitnesses describe executions, random violence and bodies in the streets. But despite the exiles’ suffering, many Turks are suspicious of their motives for crossing the border.” — Der Spiegel. In this photo: Syrian refugees gather for a protest against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at the Turkish Red Crescent camp in the Yayladagi district of the Turkish city of Hatay, two kilometers from the Syrian border, on June 15, 2011. An envoy of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was to hold talks later todya with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan who has been urging the Damascus regime to halt its crackdown on protesters. AFP PHOTO / MUSTAFA OZER
Reuters, 6/19/2011
Syrian forces try to stem exodus of refugees to Turkey
Rights activists accuse pro-government forces of attacking people helping refugees as they try to escape from widening military assault.
Dan Friedman of NYC writes:
To justify our military involvement in Libya, Obama applied a completely prefabricated doctrine – Right to Protect (“R2P”) – with no legal status that was dreamed up in the leftist hothouses of academia. Then he skirted Congress and quickly passed the baton to NATO to finish the job. That was in March. Four months later, Qaddafi is still standing and nobody knows how many innocent lives have been lost in the fight to “protect” them.
Meanwhile, back in Syria, another Arab dictator more brutal than Qaddafi, and twice as dangerous, has squared off against his own people, killing them in wholesale numbers that haven’t been tabulated yet but are estimated to be in the thousands. Yet for some strange reason, our Fearless Feckless Leader won’t even send them an encouraging word, let alone exercise the Right to Protect them.
Say what you will about Obama’s hidden motives, I don’t think we need to drill below what we see on the surface. Obama is a man with a glib tongue who appeared suddenly out of left field and at first hid his distorted values from view. Now in power, he sees the U.S. government as his tool to recreate America and the world in his image. That much is obvious. And so is the crucial need to take the tool out of his hands come November of next year. ~ df
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