DAMASCUS, Syria — The United States closed its embassy in Damascus on Monday citing security concerns, while Britain summoned its ambassador to London to discuss Syria’s increasingly bloody crackdown on anti-government demonstrators.Read the rest here.
“This is an utterly unacceptable situation which demands a united international response,” British Foreign Secretary William Hague told his country’s parliament.
The British ambassador is slated to return to Syria after consultations in London.
U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said President Bashar al-Assad has chosen a “dangerous path” in dealing with the 11-month-old uprising, adding that the United States remains “gravely concerned over the escalation of violence.”
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Syria is a typically low-trust Meditteranean society. Wealth depends on connections, and these go to Alawites and Christians. The resulting lack of economic opportunity means lots of young with no marriage prospects, so these sexual paupers are good recruiting material for Sunni militias.
Bashar is putting down a Sunni revolt funded by the Gulf Arabs and Turkey. The Christians are to be driven from Syria and the Shia/Alawites are to be slaughtered in their beds.
I find the Obama administration's position ironic, because Lord knows if, say, Texas were to secede they'd be ordering SAC to bomb it into glass.
pray for the Christians in this region.
~~Angela
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