U.N. Ambassador Powers Speech

[Synthaholic]

Good afternoon.

I’m very glad to be back in Washington this afternoon and among so many friends here at the Center for American Progress. As you know, my topic today is Syria, which presents one of the most critical foreign policy challenges we face. Syria is important because it lies at the heart of a region critical to U.S. security, a region that is home to friends and partners and one of our closest allies. It is important because the Syrian regime possesses stores of chemical weapons that they have recently used on a large scale and that we cannot allow to fall into terrorists’ hands.

It is important because the Syrian regime is collaborating with Iran and works in lockstep with thousands of extremist fighters from Hezbollah.....

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Link added Remarks by Ambassador Samantha Power, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, on Syria at the Center for American Progress, Washington D.C.

 

[Synthaholic]

The OP is very long. Please only quote relevant parts and not the whole thing.

Thanks!

 

[Contumacious]

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We all have a choice to make, whether we are Republicans or Democrats, whether we have supported past military interventions ...

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[Hoffstra]

sorry, but this time.....the USA needs to pull back.

attacking Syria can make the situation much WORSE!!!

Assad is the lesser of two evils.

 

[OriginalShroom]

Not a single word that makes involvement in Syria a vital American Interest.

Sure.. a lot of bad things are happening there.. but nothing that has a direct affect on the United States security or well being.

 

[The T]

Who would have thought Synthia is a warmonger...

 

[Moonglow]

sobering yet depressing.

 

[Hoffstra]

She forgot to mention that the gas may have been used without an order from Assad.

 

[The T]

Not a single word that makes involvement in Syria a vital American Interest.

Sure.. a lot of bad things are happening there.. but nothing that has a direct affect on the United States security or well being.

And NOT one word of Obama trying to save HIS reputation...

 

[Synthaholic]

She forgot to mention that the gas may have been used without an order from Assad.

 

[Synthaholic]

Who would have thought Synthia is a warmonger...

But not an anti-American Commie rooter like you.

 

[TemplarKormac]

She forgot to mention that the gas may have been used without an order from Assad.

Your face looks like Paul Ryan's. Just look at your avatar. I know how you feel.

 

[tinydancer]

The OP is very long. Please only quote relevant parts and not the whole thing.

Thanks!

She hates Hillary. Why would I like her?

 

[OriginalShroom]

FUCK YOU. How about that?

It violates nothing. Asshole.

No link and the entire speech, that is two violations of the rules.

Why is the posting of the whole speech a violation?


Dig that hole, dick.

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Just trying to be helpful here...

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[Synthaholic]

Funny how you all are desperately trying to deflect from Power's convincing argument.


Wingnuts will be wingnuts.

 

[asterism]

President Obama, Secretary Kerry, and many members of Congress have spelled out the consequences of failing to meet this threat. If there are more chemical attacks, we will see an inevitable spike in the flow of refugees on top of the already two million in the region, possibly pushing Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey or Iraq past their break — breaking points. The fourth largest city in Jordan right now is already the Zaatari refugee camp.

Short of an invasion and/or ouster of Assad how will some strategic missile strikes accomplish this, and if how is any attack against Assad not a gain for Al Qaeda?

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Funny how you all are desperately trying to deflect from Power's convincing argument.


Wingnuts will be wingnuts.

She made a convincing argument that she can't be trusted to speak the truth, just like she did when she went on TV and lied about Benghazi.

 

[Synthaholic]

President Obama, Secretary Kerry, and many members of Congress have spelled out the consequences of failing to meet this threat. If there are more chemical attacks, we will see an inevitable spike in the flow of refugees on top of the already two million in the region, possibly pushing Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey or Iraq past their break — breaking points. The fourth largest city in Jordan right now is already the Zaatari refugee camp.

Short of an invasion and/or ouster of Assad how will some strategic missile strikes accomplish this, and if how is any attack against Assad not a gain for Al Qaeda?

It's always instrumental to go back and read what Right-Wingers think before it becomes an "oppose the Democratic President no matter what" issue.

From National Review, in June:



Back during the Bush administration, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage famously called Hezbollah the “A Team of terrorists,” adding, “al-Qaeda is actually the B Team.” How do these two organizations compare today?


Last week, the State Department released the 2012 issue of its annual “Country Reports on Terrorism.” At a “background briefing,” a “senior administration official” highlighted an “alarming trend”: a “marked resurgence of terrorist activity by Iran and Hezbollah. The tempo of operational activity was something we haven’t seen since the 1990s. . . . We see no signs of this activity abating in 2013. In fact, our assessment is that Hezbollah and Iran will both continue to maintain a heightened level of terrorist activity and operations in the near future.”


The State Department is right to see Hezbollah and Iran as joined at the hip: The former is financed and instructed by the latter. That has not always been understood, despite the fact that, prior to 9/11/01, Hezbollah was responsible for more American deaths than any other terrorist organization. And Hezbollah’s secretary general, Hassan Nasrallah, has proclaimed, “Death to America was, is, and will stay our slogan.” A pertinent question: If Iran’s rulers should obtain nuclear weapons, might they give one or two to Hezbollah to use for approved purposes? A plausible answer: Why not?

It’s well known that Hezbollah has been sending combatants into Syria in support of Bashar Assad, the dictator and Iranian satrap. Less publicized are Hezbollah’s operations in other corners of the world. A Hezbollah attack on a bus in Bulgaria last July killed five Israelis and one Bulgarian. In Nigeria, authorities recently broke up a Hezbollah cell, seizing what one Nigerian official called “a large quantity of assorted weapons of different types and caliber.”

 

[asterism]

President Obama, Secretary Kerry, and many members of Congress have spelled out the consequences of failing to meet this threat. If there are more chemical attacks, we will see an inevitable spike in the flow of refugees on top of the already two million in the region, possibly pushing Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey or Iraq past their break — breaking points. The fourth largest city in Jordan right now is already the Zaatari refugee camp.

Short of an invasion and/or ouster of Assad how will some strategic missile strikes accomplish this, and if how is any attack against Assad not a gain for Al Qaeda?

It's always instrumental to go back and read what Right-Wingers think before it becomes an "oppose the Democratic President no matter what" issue.

From National Review, in June:



Back during the Bush administration, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage famously called Hezbollah the “A Team of terrorists,” adding, “al-Qaeda is actually the B Team.” How do these two organizations compare today?


Last week, the State Department released the 2012 issue of its annual “Country Reports on Terrorism.” At a “background briefing,” a “senior administration official” highlighted an “alarming trend”: a “marked resurgence of terrorist activity by Iran and Hezbollah. The tempo of operational activity was something we haven’t seen since the 1990s. . . . We see no signs of this activity abating in 2013. In fact, our assessment is that Hezbollah and Iran will both continue to maintain a heightened level of terrorist activity and operations in the near future.”


The State Department is right to see Hezbollah and Iran as joined at the hip: The former is financed and instructed by the latter. That has not always been understood, despite the fact that, prior to 9/11/01, Hezbollah was responsible for more American deaths than any other terrorist organization. And Hezbollah’s secretary general, Hassan Nasrallah, has proclaimed, “Death to America was, is, and will stay our slogan.” A pertinent question: If Iran’s rulers should obtain nuclear weapons, might they give one or two to Hezbollah to use for approved purposes? A plausible answer: Why not?

It’s well known that Hezbollah has been sending combatants into Syria in support of Bashar Assad, the dictator and Iranian satrap. Less publicized are Hezbollah’s operations in other corners of the world. A Hezbollah attack on a bus in Bulgaria last July killed five Israelis and one Bulgarian. In Nigeria, authorities recently broke up a Hezbollah cell, seizing what one Nigerian official called “a large quantity of assorted weapons of different types and caliber.”

So since I didn't say any of that, what are your thoughts? I gave you mine.

 

[Synthaholic]

Funny how you all are desperately trying to deflect from Power's convincing argument.


Wingnuts will be wingnuts.

She made a convincing argument that she can't be trusted to speak the truth, just like she did when she went on TV and lied about Benghazi.

Failed talking point has failed.


The American public, upon weighing the evidence, has concluded that you wingnuts are creating "scandals" through sheer hatred of the president. And they are correct.