UK recognises Syrian opposition.

[ricgem2002]

Great our government now supports suicide bombing Muslim terrorists.Fantastic.

 

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aint we been doing that for years?

[Anna Glypta]

Indeed I am but is Syria about to threaten to attack the UK? If not why does the UK need to get involved?

 

We don't need to be involved, and we aren't involved. We have merely recognised the opposition as representatives of the Syrian people. These things tend to be remembered when a new regime is looking for allies and trading partners.

[XXTickerXX]

aint we been doing that for years?

 

Not overtly trying to put them in government.Its like Assad turning round and saying he recognises the London rioters as the true government of the UK.

 

So now it will be bomb and kill them in Afghanistan and give them bombs and weapons in Syria!! Superb strategy.

 

How do you even negotiate with a government that has a 2 word vocabulary.Allah Akbar.

 

Assad is more popular than ever in Syria right now.They are choosing better the devil you know than a bunch of Wahhabi terrorists.

[andygardener]

Not overtly trying to put them in government.Its like Assad turning round and saying he recognises the London rioters as the true government of the UK.

 

So now it will be bomb and kill them in Afghanistan and give them bombs and weapons in Syria!! Superb strategy.

 

How do you even negotiate with a government that has a 2 word vocabulary.Allah Akbar.

 

Assad is more popular than ever in Syria right now.They are choosing better the devil you know than a bunch of Wahhabi terrorists.

 

The art of diplomacy in situations like this is identifying the point at which one side is inevitably going to win so you can build goodwill with them, but you're not actively going to have to get involved.

 

Assad is toast. It might cost another 100 lives to get rid of him or another 30,000, but he's finished. The National Coalition will end up being the new interim government and the sooner we can schooling them in the niceties of law and order and encouraging them to drop the more loopy elements the better in this case. By recognizing them it's gives us leverage with them.

[mafya]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20406562

 

Foreign Secretary William Hague has said the UK has decided to recognise the Syrian opposition coalition.

 

He told MPs the National Coalition of the Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces was the "sole legitimate representative" of the Syrian people.

 

He said they were now a "credible" alternative to the Assad government.

 

 

Will this increase the pressure on Assad?

 

Does he also aknowledge the attrociaties commited by the opposition fighters?

[tinfoilhat]

Maybe not, since the two largest Syrian fundamentalist groups (Liwaa al-Tawhid, Front al-Nosra, both salafo-dijhadists) challenged the SORF mandate yesterday, revealing a distinct, and non-trivial, political split within anti-Assad forces.

 

For all the right and wrong reasons, it's a mess-in-the-making we're best steering well clear of.

 

Totally agree. You could well end up with civil war "2" before assads body is cold.

[Aleksandr]

Great our government now supports suicide bombing Muslim terrorists.Fantastic.

 

I wonder if they will support the uprising in Bahrain too.

They always seem to pick the wrong side! So Syria switches from a dictator to a radical Islamist government. What's good about that? What is there for us to be proud of? It's not a step forward. Give me a dictator any day!

[Aleksandr]

Does he also aknowledge the attrociaties commited by the opposition fighters?

Expediency dictates not.

[Aleksandr]

The art of diplomacy in situations like this is identifying the point at which one side is inevitably going to win so you can build goodwill with them, but you're not actively going to have to get involved.

 

Assad is toast. It might cost another 100 lives to get rid of him or another 30,000, but he's finished. The National Coalition will end up being the new interim government and the sooner we can schooling them in the niceties of law and order and encouraging them to drop the more loopy elements the better in this case. By recognizing them it's gives us leverage with them.

But they won't drop the more 'loopy' element, will they? And our trainers will be shot by their trainees! The rebels aren't interested in us - we're Infidels to them! They might court our support to get into power, but we'll have a harder time with them than we did negotiating with Assad.

 

What will we have to be proud of? The minority (and more moderate) Alawite population will be annihilated, and victory will fall to the more extreme Sunnis. Bad times...

[XXTickerXX]

The art of diplomacy in situations like this is identifying the point at which one side is inevitably going to win so you can build goodwill with them, but you're not actively going to have to get involved.

 

Assad is toast. It might cost another 100 lives to get rid of him or another 30,000, but he's finished. The National Coalition will end up being the new interim government and the sooner we can schooling them in the niceties of law and order and encouraging them to drop the more loopy elements the better in this case. By recognizing them it's gives us leverage with them.

 

They have been saying that for over a year and still there he is with the SAA killing more terrorists by the day.

 

Whilst he still has the backing of Russia,China and Iran weapons will still flow to his armed forces and he might not be as easy to get rid of as people think.

A fiercely loyal Alawite army who knows they will be slaughtered when captured can be a great motivational force for a dictator.

 

Coupled with the largest stockpile of chemical and biological weapons in the middle east who knows what they would do when backed into a small corner.

 

I hope the SAA kills thousands more jihadists before any intervening though.