Gulf Arabs quit Syria monitoring mission

Right on schedule for mid-March intervention.

March 20, 2003.

Glorious.

Maybe you should go visit Syria for a month, and get shot at. Is Russia in on it too?

"Russia Says Syria’s Assad Hasn’t Responded to Peace Efforts"

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad hasn’t responded to efforts to promote a peaceful solution to 10-month-old unrest, said a Kremlin envoy, Mikhail Margelov.

Russia is losing confidence in the possibility of a negotiated outcome in Syria, “because we don’t see any willingness, either from the authorities or the protesters, to reach an agreement,” Margelov said today in a phone interview.

Russia in October blocked a bid by the European Union and U.S. for the United Nations Security Council to condemn the crackdown in Syria, arguing that Assad was seeking to implement political changes.

Margelov, a special envoy who traveled to Libya last year in a bid to negotiate Muammar Qaddafi’s departure and has offered to mediate between the Syrian government and opposition, said Russia hasn’t received a “clear, positive response” from Assad.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-24/russia-says-syria-s-assad-hasn-t-responded-to-peace-efforts.html

regime change operation last year. Maybe tangerine-navel orange, but not apples to oranges.

Neither does NATO and neither does the US. It is way too complex.

Also, in Iraq, there was not an ongoing revolution where people were being massacred at the rate of about 20 a day for 10 months. R2P had no application at all in Iraq.

I would say it is apples to chewing gum, where large bubbles of hot air are being blown.

Your alternative metaphor is a little strained. Pop

Iraq and Syria are not the same. Try listing the differences.

Ball's in your court. I don't have all afternoon to play, however.

I may do it tonight.