• Obama, Putin face difficult talks on Syria at G8 conference on monday
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[QUOTE]After authorizing for the first time supplying U.S. weapons to Syrian rebels, President Barack Obama will face difficult talks next week with Russian President Vladimir Putin, an important ally of Syria’s government, on ways to end the civil war there. Obama on Monday is set to hold his first private, face-to-face meeting with Putin in a year at the G8 conference in Northern Ireland, the White House said on Friday. Obama will discuss U.S. evidence that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces have used chemical weapons – what the U.S. President has called a “red line” in the two-year-old civil war, the White House said. Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has told Secretary of State John Kerry that U.S. accusations of chemical weapons use by Assad’s forces “are not backed up by verified facts,” the Russian foreign ministry said on Friday. Lavrov also said more U.S. military support for Syrian rebels could escalate violence in the region, the foreign ministry added. Obama has authorized sending U.S. weapons to Syrian rebels, a U.S. official said on Thursday. The United States has provided details to Russia on several chemical weapons attacks, said Ben Rhodes, Obama’s national security spokesman. “We’ve got physical samples that demonstrate that point,” he told reporters at a White House briefing.[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/obama-putin-face-difficult-talks-on-syria-at-g8-conference/article12570457/[/url]
Good. These talks should be difficult. The USA shouldn't be fucking knocking down regimes on feeble evidence that doesn't even match up and can be disproved by internet detectives within ten minutes.
[QUOTE=Paul McCartney;41037472]Good. These talks should be difficult. The USA shouldn't be fucking knocking down regimes on feeble evidence that doesn't even match up and can be disproved by internet detectives within ten minutes.[/QUOTE] Yeah the Syrian government is totally a peaceful regime that in no way has ever committed terrible atrocities.
[QUOTE=ThePinkPanzer;41040146]Yeah the Syrian government is totally a peaceful regime that in no way has ever committed terrible atrocities.[/QUOTE] The thing is though, so have the rebels. Who would we be supporting? Who do we know isn't Al-Qaeda affiliated? Who do we know isn't going around committing horrific atrocities of their own? I hate to say this but this fight should be left to the original belligerents. No outside involvement whatsoever.
The US is cold as ice, waiting till Iran and Hezbollah get deeply involved in the conflict then supplying the rebels with weapons.
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