1. So the US has given up on removing Assad eh? or is it more like one of Aesop's fables about the fox and the grapes? [link]
    (sj, 3 April 2017 11:02)

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  2. Removing Assad from power "no longer US priority"

    Making Syrian President Bashar al-Assad leave power is not longer a priority of US foreign policy

    BECAUSE ,they can not do it ,and failed )))
    Had he not had Putin as a ally ,but USA/NATO ,he would have been gone ,like poor Saddam Hussein who had USA as ally against Iran in the 1980's found out the hard way.
    How thinks has changed in world power strengths countries .
    Soon the Red Dragon and the Big Bear will be ruling .
    (sasa.p from near Jagodina, Serbia, 1 April 2017 15:22)

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  3. "against a stable, moderate government"
    (Andy UK, 31 March 2017 11:18)

    LOL, Stable possibly, moderate no.

    Under Hafez, Syria invaded Lebabon and during the 100day war he killed 100,000 (mostly Christians) and created another 300.000 refugees.
    Under Bashar the government used machine guns on on unarmed and peaceful protestors and Syria had training camps and safehouses for terrorists including ISIS. The could travel to Iraq to set off car bombs, then return for R&R in Syria.
    Since the war started? Mass executions and torture of prisoners, attacking civilian areas and enemies with sarin and chlorine, just last week all evidence points to the use of Chlorine gas on civilians by Assad.
    (Dwight, 31 March 2017 19:02)

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  4. No its because Czar Putin said Het !!!!!
    (Cetnik1, 31 March 2017 17:51)

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  5. Great again

    Gactman

    It's not great yet.It will be soon with Kosovo as part of Serbia as it's been for hundreds of years.Time is fast aporoaching and you should fasten your belts.
    (andrew, 31 March 2017 16:00)

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  6. Thank goodness that 27 years of failed American presidencies and poor foreign policy choices have come to an end (Bush 1, Clinton 1-2, Bush 1-2, Obama 1-2). Great again.
    (factman, 31 March 2017 14:54)

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  7. Russia=Gamechanger
    Balance in the world means less tyranny...no matter who does it!
    (Watcher, 31 March 2017 13:50)

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  8. So the USA has changed its mind. Shame it didn't think about it more when they decided to get involved against a stable, moderate government and back a load of stone age fundamentalists, resulting in hundreds of thousands dead, refugees swamping Europe and parts of the middle east being ruled by brutal Jihadi nutcases.
    (Andy UK, 31 March 2017 11:18)

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  9. No longer US priority because it is no longer for real.
    (Rote, 31 March 2017 10:14)

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