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 A good comment from Juan

 A good comment from Juan Cole thread:

• Todd Kennedy says:
  02/10/2012 at 3:29 am

  The key to leveraging Russia and China is determining where their actual interests with regard to Syria lie, and then exploiting any rifts within their valuation of the policy, and that is of course given that Putin and China are rationale actors. From my point of view Russia’s interests lie in their perception of Syria as within their sphere of influence, and China’s interests along with Russia lie within their solidarity with totalitarians within their sphere. So it’s going to come down to NATO making a trade with Russia, probably with regard to the missile implementation on the border of Eastern Europe or a myriad of other Russian wants. Every day it becomes a softer sell as the eyes of world look to Syrian actions and then glance up to see that it is Russia and China as their ally who are delinquent, in the very least in managing their sphere.

  The real interests for China and Russia is to let go of this archaic neo-colonial, cold war sphere concept and unburden themselves with certain nations and regions. China isn’t benefiting from force holding Tibet and Russia has little benefit from keeping Syria.

  On the flip-side Egypt’s emancipation from the US sphere has now caused them to hold 26 Americans hostage for the sake of factional cohesion between the brotherhood and Egyptian Military Aid demands. So there is blow back from letting go sometimes as well.

  Naturally dropping small arms into the situation is as always a dumb idea, to me this is allegorical to the Balkans, and that was a situation where the Russians also protected the Serbians for a long time until international pressure made it no longer in their interests. Foreign Policy is always about rationale actor and their interests and irrational actors and creativity in informing them of where their interests lie.

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 A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.--Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

 Riyadh Al-As`ad said that

 Riyadh Al-As`ad said that his forces did attack a center for "thugs" (Shabbihah) in Aleppo but that they did not bomb it but that the Syrian regime bombed after the withdrawal of the Free Syrian Army forces. Let me get this straight--it is not easy to keep up with the lies of this army or the Syrian National Council: so the forces of the Free Syrian Army attacked a center of "regime's thugs" but that after the withdrawal of the Free Syrian Army armed thugs (sorry, soldiers), the Syrian regime's thugs in the center decided to bomb themselves? I mean, that is exactly the account that Riyad Al-As`ad told on Aljazeera Arabic.

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.--Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

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این بچه تپلی خوش آب و رنگ، حسن آقا نصرولله، الان چندین ساله که در رفته از لبنان، نشسته تو قصرش در شمال تهران ، هی‌ قول میده که انتقام سقط شدن عماد مقنیه، قاتل و شکنجه گر ایرانیان خوزستانی، زن و بچه‌های یهودی تبار و  ترررسیت محبوب علی‌ خامنه‌ای را با کشتن چند مقام بزرگ اسرائیلی بگیره، و هنوز هیچ حلوای نتونسته بخوره.

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You are another jerk like your suppoter in IRI.

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