Guns turn towards Syria: End violence or else?

[The Northerner]

Run time: 03:16 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEsLDUvAY68   Posted on YouTube: November 18, 2011 By YouTube Member: RussiaToday Views on YouTube: 4750   Posted on DU: November 18, 2011 By DU Member: The Northerner Views on DU: 942

 
Russia has again warned foreign powers against intervening in Syria's internal unrest. It comes after Jordan reportedly asked the UK to take the lead in a war of words against president Assad, in an effort to oust him from power. Moscow has expressed concern that the situation is falling too much in line with the Libyan scenario. RT's Ivor Bennett has more.

[tabatha]

1. Crap as usual.

Among the explanations given for why the West intervened in Libya but has thus far stayed out of the far greater crisis in Syria has been the lack of regional support for action.

It is widely believed that the approach to Britain and France has considerable support within the Arab League with many states feeling that the Europeans’ proximity to the Middle East and their greater understanding of its complexities would make them better leaders of such a contact group than the United States. King Abdullah of Jordan presented the case to British Prime Minister David Cameron during talks on Tuesday.

there appears to be little desire among Arab or Western states to push for any military involvement – at least at this stage.

Not only would Western-led intervention in a major Arab state threaten to plunge the Middle East into a wider regional conflict, it would also ratchet up the tensions between the West and Syria’s powerful allies in Russia.

Yet everything else conspires against action. The West is in the midst of the greatest economic crisis in generations and cutting spending to the bone. A decade of fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere have left all concerned weary of war and, in many cases, severely under resourced.

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/syria-and-the-responsibility-to-protect/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OTB+%28Outside+The+Beltway+|+OTB%29

[movonne]

2. lets get rid of violence here....our police and the way they

are treating the OWS is looking like every other country fighting their people...

[RZM]

3. What a joke of a piece

But that's what we've come to expect from RT. The chances of a 'Libya scenario' in Syria are remote. But that's not what the Kremlin wants you to think. Since they are staunch allies of the Assad regime, they want to ramp up the fear as much as possible as to get support from the Western antiwar left for Russia's positions.

When are people here going to realize that RT is a massive con job?

[DeSwiss]

4. K&R n/t