France and Britain Fail: EU Won’t Lift Syria Arms Ban

[blackascoal]

France and Britain have continued to browbeat the European Union all week about lifting the arms embargo on Syria so they could start throwing weapons at the rebels, but diplomats familiar with the situation say they have failed and the EU won’t lift the ban.

Efforts to lift the ban have been ongoing for weeks, but shifted in rhetoric after the Tuesday reports of a chemical weapons attack in Aleppo. The reports are almost certainly false, but that’s not stopping France.

“Very close attention must be paid to the possible use by Assad of chemical weapons,” noted Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, adding “there are indications that he might have used them or that he might use them.”

Germany and Austria are leading the opposition to lifting the embargo, saying that they are concerned the rebels, many of whom are from al-Qaeda linked jihadist factions, would eventually use the weapons on EU member nations.
http://news.antiwar.com/2013/03/22/france-and-britain-fail-eu-wont-lift-syria-arms-ban/

So much for that international coalition.

More blowback from the invasion of Libya .. which has just about ended American global leadership.

 

[cancel2 2022]

France and Britain have continued to browbeat the European Union all week about lifting the arms embargo on Syria so they could start throwing weapons at the rebels, but diplomats familiar with the situation say they have failed and the EU won’t lift the ban.

Efforts to lift the ban have been ongoing for weeks, but shifted in rhetoric after the Tuesday reports of a chemical weapons attack in Aleppo. The reports are almost certainly false, but that’s not stopping France.

“Very close attention must be paid to the possible use by Assad of chemical weapons,” noted Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, adding “there are indications that he might have used them or that he might use them.”

Germany and Austria are leading the opposition to lifting the embargo, saying that they are concerned the rebels, many of whom are from al-Qaeda linked jihadist factions, would eventually use the weapons on EU member nations.
http://news.antiwar.com/2013/03/22/france-and-britain-fail-eu-wont-lift-syria-arms-ban/

So much for that international coalition.

More blowback from the invasion of Libya .. which has just about ended American global leadership.

You are a bit of a one club golfer, Syria is not the same as Libya. Do you know that the ruling class in Syria are Alawites, who are Shi'a not Sunnis?

 

[blackascoal]

You are a bit of a one club golfer, Syria is not the same as Libya. Do you know that the ruling class in Syria are Alawites, who are Shi'a not Sunnis?

I find you to be .. well .. kinda' of a easily manipulated clown. Hope that's not true of most brits.

Libya was a vivid demonstration to the entire world that NATO and the West will create situations that justifies invasion and chaos. The world isn't buying that bullshit anymore.

Iraq was blamed on the evil of George Bush, but Libya was a demonstration that its wasn't Bush, it was US and NATO designed machinations.

Today, both Libya and Iraq are consumed by chaos and destruction .. where there was none before the US and NATO came to shore.

"many of whom are from al-Qaeda linked jihadist factions" .. I bolded that for people like you .. and you still didn't get it. Where do you think some of those Al Queda fighters are coming from?

Libya rebels move onto Syrian battlefield
http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/28/world/meast/syria-libya-fighters

I hope all brits aren't as easily led by the nose.

 

[Airstrip One]

Well, the Germans ought to know well the dangers of arming an unfit nation...