Charlie Rose

SharkswithfrikingLazers  08/08/2012 01:06 AM Report

The Ambassador is correct. There should be justice. Frontline had a great segment tonight.

Assad is a leader who murders his own people. Those who help him are accessories to murder.

Pray for divine justice because human justice is just not what it should be.

Gelles  08/05/2012 11:32 PM Report

Believe it or not my dentist son fixed this damn computer. I taught computer science for a decade more than 20 years ago. He is far smarter than I am. And younger. I am thankful he has adopted me as one more dependent he can manage with ease. His specialty is teeth. But his talents are many and extremely effective in real life.

Gelles  08/05/2012 11:24 PM Report

Is the murderer Assad really innocent of crime? Is it fair and common-sensical to kill civilians when they protest against tyranny? Are Russia and China fairer than the protesters now being murdered? REMant sees the facts differently. Not tyranny to them -- merely law and order.

Fair it would be to ship him over there for a year. On his return, his testimony would have great value. As it is, REMant echoes Tory ideas I cannot respect. Who cares? Assad will last until he's gone. So will REMant and Gelles.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  08/04/2012 11:18 PM Report

"Providing weapons to Syria while crimes against humanity are being committed may translate into assisting in the commission of those crimes"--hello Russia.

One of Russia's interests is access to the port of Tartus, home to its only remaining military base outside the former USSR and thus a key source of its influence in the eastern Mediterranean[361]--hello rest of the world.

So when Kofi leaves at the end of the month send him to Russia for a "possible" peace.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  08/04/2012 11:07 PM Report

DEATHS, DIPLOMACY, REGIME:

The Washington Post has done a nice job with this:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/world/syrian-uprising-one-year-of-bloodshed/index.html

SharkswithfrikingLazers  08/04/2012 10:59 PM Report

So the Ambassador tells us al-Assad's departure is a forgone conclusion.

Bashar al-Assad is a M.D. who specialized in ophthalmology in London. Ironically he can't see his end coming this year.

Perhaps the Russians can FedEx a package that includes a pair of glasses and a visa.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  08/04/2012 10:49 PM Report

Charlie, you are coughing again (this time off camera) and the Ambassador made a funny face.

Health first.

REMant  08/03/2012 02:16 PM Report

Of course the British are going to say it's not their fault. That's not, however, what Annan says. He was ignored as much or more by them as anyone else. I have no idea what the fixation is on Assad, anymore than on Qaddafi. A re-incarnation of Hitler, Tojo or Stalin? Satan? They did the same with the Kaiser and the plantation owners. I suppose they are interested in making them an example, which seems to be what our justice system is mostly about. But it's never made any significant difference before and it strikes me as certainly impolitic. Ppl are still fighting in Libya, if not reported, because no longer a matter of abolitionist angst. The media seem little better than propagandists, as Prosecutor Rose makes clear quite frequently. One wonders how they would have reported on Louis XVI, whose only crime was in trying to liberalize his regime.

All the talk about protecting the population is certainly hogwash. The population has been butchered just as much by the rebels, and a lot of it is not innocent anyway. There has already been a ceasefire. It didn't hold primarily because arms and fighters kept pouring in. I have no idea where the guns came from to begin with. As I understand it, they were illegal.

A pretty good political assessment appeared recently on the Aljazeera website: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/07/2012730103733476503.html