[Peace-discuss] Interesting comment on Syria (from Elaine Hagopian, via Kevin Zeese on ufpj-activist)

[Carl G. Estabrook]

To avoid any suspicion of ulterior motives, why doesn't the US propose  
a UN-sponsored military intervention to establish peace in Syria - to  
be carried out by Iran?

To establish its good faith, the U.S. could volunteer to underwrite  
the mission - but only by contributions to the UN, to be distributed  
to Iran to cover its costs.


On Jun 12, 2012, at 10:34 PM, Stuart Levy wrote:

> Thought this worth sharing.  A question for us should be, How can we  
> talk to people about the rush to war with Syria?  Isn't it our  
> humanitarian duty, a necessary response to the brutal Assad regime,  
> etc., to do something military against them, just as it was for Libya?
>
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> Subject:	[ufpj-activist] Interesting comment on Syria
> Date:	Tue, 12 Jun 2012 21:58:17 -0400
> From:	Kevin Zeese <kbzeese at gmail.com>
> To:	ufpj-activist <ufpj-activist at lists.mayfirst.org>
>
> I thought this was a good statement on Syria by Elaine Hagopian, a  
> Syrian-American sociologist, a professor emeritus of sociology at  
> Simmons College in Boston and political interviewer for Arabic Hour  
> TV. She said today:
>
> "The situation in Syria has intensified. The regime is determined to  
> defeat the militarized opposition and the fractured and incoherent  
> militarized opposition, which is trying to develop a united  
> strategy, is determined to bring down the regime. Both parties  
> refuse to accept a cease fire as part of the Annan plan, blaming  
> each other for its failure. Each blames the other for the series of  
> massacres that have taken place. But there are conflicting reports  
> on these, and the UN monitors have confirmed the massacres, but have  
> not stated who committed them. They did identify artillery shells  
> that were fired in the area by the regime, but did not connect the  
> up close murders of civilians to the regime. A leading German daily,  
> Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), reports that the rebels did  
> the killing, and the victims were Alawites. Mainstream media report  
> that the Shabiha (civilian Alawite mafia) did it on behalf of the  
> regime. Who to believe? Two things are clear, both the regime and  
> the militarized opposition lie, and both commit atrocities. In the  
> meantime, the original, non-violent reform movement, now calling for  
> Assad to step down as well, has been overshadowed by the violent  
> exchanges going on between the regime and the militarized  
> opposition. As Syria deteriorates and feels the pressures of the  
> economic sanctions, the violence escalates. Russia and the U.S.  
> suggest different 'solutions,' but have not found common ground to  
> move toward halting the violence..."
>
> The full interview and others here: http://www.arabichour.org
>
> KZ
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