Syria’s assad calls for elections, offers amnesty to syrian rebels (Congress, Iraq)

[KRAMERCAT]

Russia has enabled Assad to overcome the US/England/France coalition of the West from causing the same breeding ground chaos for ISIS that their overthrow of Saddam, Gaddafi, Mubarak, etc has caused throughout the Middle East.

'It may be hard for many consumers of Western media to remember the original reasons for the Syrian civil war but those who have been paying attention remember the conflict was originally started as an effort to overthrow Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad in a manner similar to Libya. After being billed as a dictator similar to Saddam Hussein in Iraq or Muammar Gaddafi in Libya; Assad was targeted by Western intervention in the same way yet has retained power longer than his enemies ever suspected and has now promised to play his part in ending the conflict in surprising ways.

Syria

[GregW]

Sounds like a good thing to me. It is a positive step to getting us and, hopefully, Russia out of the Middle East. Time to let the Saudis and other Arabs get on with their War with Everyone. We do not need to interfere. So what if American investors lose "their" oil holdings. Tough! That is one of the risks of doing business outside of the United States.

[Goodnight]

This revolution seemed pretty much home grown with middle class people out of work and starving and unhappy with Assad's lack of assistance.


Assad's reaction was far worse than anything by Hussein or Gaddafi, I'm glad to see temporary peace but I don't see the Syrian rebels forgetting about this anytime soon.

[engineman]

Term limits? Syria, Russia and the US Congress all need them.