Crackpot realpolitik.
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 11:54 AM, ken hanly <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Presumably when this chap meets with the administration he takes along a > translator. > cheers ken > > > On Thursday, March 20, 2014 8:39:10 AM, Marv Gandall < > [email protected]> wrote: > "The best case for Syria and for the credibility of the United States > would be one in which the president upholds the operational relevance and > directive nature of his August 2011 step-aside language and permits the > interagency national security system to go back to the drawing board in > creating options for his consideration. The worst case would be one that > continues to permit the strategic communicators to broadcast the > inadmissibility of what is happening in Syria, but coupling that message > with operational inaction justified by excuses ranging from someone else's > civil war, to the purported failure of mass murder to achieve the > definition of genocide, to the all-or-nothing argument that anything with a > military dimension amounts or leads to the invasion and occupation of > Syria." > > Frederic C. Hof > Special Advisor to Obama administration on the transition in Syria > > > http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/syria-three-years-and-counting > > > ___________________________________ > http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk > > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > -- Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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