
It has been more than a year since the United States government withdrew its ambassador to Syria and closed its embassy in Damascus.
On Thursday, that ambassador returned to the region along with a U.S. delegation, touring a Syrian refugee camp in Turkey to bring more attention to the growing humanitarian crisis. As the civil war has intensified in Syria, hundreds of thousands of people have sought refuge in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and other neighboring countries.
Ambassador Robert Ford gave an exclusive interview to CNN's Ivan Watson and described what the U.S. is doing to help the refugees and the Syrian opposition.
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Why would we send a dime to Syria when we can't take care of our own!
How about asking the right-wing thugs in Washington? Let them explain away that stupidity! That has been going on since the 1950's and has never stopped!!!
Reblogged this on World Chaos.
Translation: The rich people/war corporations/MIC are making a killing (pardon the pun) on wars. That's good enough for the GOP.
Thank you, Translation. You said it all.
and by the way I am also posting under fake George Patton. You approve my posts and I will approve your posts. How about that?
Boy . . . .we can sure mess up a country. economically or militarily . . . our victims include Iraq, Libya, Greece, Lebanon, Iran (except they got tired of taking an a$$ whooping and shut us out completely- that's why we're after them so hard) . . . yup! We can basically destroy anyone (FJK, MLK, Paul Wellstone, Ron Brown . . .the list is long) . . . .just watch out!
Country or individuals . . . .no one, no independent nation is immune from our bloody assassins (cia, mossad) we control you, we control what you think . . . and we control what you spend for food and home.
We are the banks, the government we are the rothchilds children . . . . we are the zine-0-ists of israel lies and we are your masters!!
Just keep the money rolling in . . . . .chaaaa-ching!
Pass the wine . . . . we laugh at you!