Kezaliman Bashar al Assad dan rejimnya terhadap rakyatnya sendiri bukanlah satu rahsia lagi melainkan bagi mereka yang rabun dengan isu dunia antarabangsa. PBB sendiri telah menyatakan bahawa lebih 96,000 rakyat Syria telah terkorban di dalam tragedi yang berpanjangan sejak Mac 2011 yang lalu. Manakala beberapa laporan dalam Syria menyatakan bahawa jumlah jiwa yang telah terkorban telah pun melebihi 200,00 orang.
Baru-baru ini, rejim Bashar telah membunuh lebih daripada 3,000 rakyatnya dengan menggunakan bom kimia sekali lagi.
Adakah AS akan melakukan serangan terhadap Syria yang diterajui oleh Bashar al Assad, Pati Baath dan Syiah Alawi yang mendapat sokongan padu Hizbullah Lubnan, militia Syiah Iraq dan Republik Iran serta bantuan ketenteraan Cina dan Russia ?
Kenapa John Kerry, SU Amerika Syarikat mengadakan beberapa pertemuan sulit dengan Presiden Bashar al Assad sekiranya diktator yang zalim ini benar-benar musuh kepada AS ?
Ingat pengajaran daripada Peperangan Salib yang lampau apabila puak-puak Syiah telah bekerjasama dengan gabungan 22 negara Eropah sehingga terjajahnya Baitul Maqdis dan Palestin ke tangan Salib Eropah?
Semoga Allah menunjukkan jalan keluar yang terbaik buat umat ini dan diberikan kemenangan kepada pihak yang benar ! Bersabarlah wahai saudaraku di Bumi Sham kerana kemenangan akan bersamamu ! Maafkanlah kami di atas kelambatan dan kealpaan kami di dalam membantumu.....
-Dr Zainur Rashid Zainuddin-
di antara lawak Amerika Syarikat
John Kerry’s top 10 most embarrassing statements on SyriaJohn Kerry’s top 10 most embarrassing statements on Syria
Secretary of State John Kerry is leading the charge for airstrikes by the Obama Administration against Syria. The former Senator, however, has a shameful track record of appeasement of the brutal dictatorship in Damascus. During his time in the Senate, Kerry expended a great deal of effort in extending the hand of friendship to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, whom Hillary Clinton famously dubbed as a “reformer.” Significantly, during the Bush Administration years, Kerry was a fierce critic of Washington’s hardline stance against Assad, and worked hard to undercut the White House sanctions regime against Syria, advocating a policy of engagement with a state sponsor of terrorism and key ally of Iran. Here are ten of the most embarrassing statements by Mr. Kerry on Syria.
1. Speech at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, March 2011
“President Assad has been very generous with me in terms of the discussions we have had. And when I last went to – the last several trips to Syria – I asked President Assad to do certain things to build the relationship with the United States and sort of show the good faith that would help us to move the process forward.”
2. Damascus Press Conference, February 2009
“President Barack Obama's administration considers Syria a key player in Washington's efforts to revive the stalled Middle East peace process.”
“Syria is an essential player in bringing peace and stability to the region.”
3. Speech at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, March 2011
“So my judgment is that Syria will move; Syria will change, as it embraces a legitimate relationship with the United States and the West and economic opportunity that comes with it and the participation that comes with it.”
4. Opening Statement at Senate Nomination Hearing for U.S. Ambassador to Syria, March 2010
“I have long argued that America’s national security interests are well served by engaging with Syria.”
“I believe that with confident, carefully calibrated diplomacy, we can show Damascus what it stands to gain by moderating its behavior – and what it stands to lose by going in the other direction. To succeed, we must present Damascus with a clear choice and a vision of a different future.”
5. Statement following meeting with Assad, Damascus, January 2005
“I think we found a great deal of areas of mutual interest, some common concerns and some possibilities for initiatives that could be taken in the future to strengthening the relationship between the U.S. and Syria.”
“I leave here with a sense that we can improve our relationship. There are significant possibilities, particularly with the elections in Iraq and the elections in the West Bank … This is the moment of opportunity for the Middle East, for the U.S. and for the world. I hope that we would seize that opportunity.”
6. Speech to Brookings Institution, March 2009
“Loosening certain sanctions in return for verifiable changes in behavior could actually benefit US businesses. And the sanctions can always be tightened again if Syria backtracks.”
7. Boston Globe op-ed, January 2007
“To test the Syrians directly, as the Baker-Hamilton Commission suggested, Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut and I met with President Bashar al-Assad for more than two hours. The conversation confirmed my belief that engagement with Syria could be useful in advancing our objectives across the region. The Syrian leadership will act according to its own self-interest. The challenge is to get Syria's leaders to make a strategic decision to change direction, and shift their allegiance away from Iran.”
“This requires a package of incentives that will provide real benefits for playing a more constructive role and disincentives that will undermine their interests – if not endanger their survival – if they do not. These would be implemented incrementally, based on verified facts on the ground.”
8. Statement following meeting with Assad, Damascus, April 2010
“President Al-Assad and I had a very positive discussion on the formidable challenges facing this region and we found agreement on a number of ways in which both of us and other countries can contribute significantly to changing the dynamics that exist today,”
9. Washington Post op-ed, December 2006
“Another case where steadfastness long ago gave way to stubbornness is our approach to Iraq's neighbors. Last week in Damascus, Sen. Christopher Dodd of Connecticut and I met with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad. We were clear about U.S. expectations for change in his regime's policies, but we found potential for cooperation with Syria in averting a disaster in Iraq — potential that should be put to the test. Washington can't remain on the sidelines, stubbornly clinging to a belief that talking to our enemies rewards hostile regimes.”
10. Comments in Cairo, before heading to Syria, December 2006
(Reported by Christian Science Monitor)
In a meeting with a small group of reporters in Cairo on Friday before heading on to Iraq and Syria, Senator Kerry was defiant about criticism that he was undermining the Bush administration's policies.
He said refusing to talk to these regimes is “a mistake … the kind of policy that's got us into trouble in the region, and it needs to change.”
He also was clear about what's prompting these sorts of visits. “Now that the Democrats are in control of Congress, we have an even larger responsibility to set a direction … as a counterbalance.”
