Thursday, May 30, 2013

Assad says he will respond to future Israeli Strike

Assad: Syria will respond to future Israeli strike

By ZEINA KARAM and BASSEM MROUE | Associated Press – 8 hrs ago
BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad says his forces will respond to any future Israeli strike on his country.
Assad spoke in an interview broadcast Thursday on Al-Manar, a TV station owned by the Lebanese militia Hezbollah, a close ally.
Israel struck near the Syrian capital of Damascus earlier this month. Israeli officials said at the time they were targeting suspected shipments of advanced missiles purportedly intended for Hezbollah.
Asked whether Syria would respond to such strikes, Assad said: "We have told countries that we will respond to any strike with a similar strike." He says that the manner of the response "depends on the circumstance and timing" of the attack.
He also says he agrees 'in principle' to send negotiators to peace talks.

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http://news.yahoo.com/assad-syria-respond-future-israeli-strike-183409498.html

It appears obvious that Russia is willing to bring down Iraq, Lebanon and Israel rather than to give up on Syria. Though this seems crazy to a western mind, it is important to view this with history in mind. First of all, Putin was in the KGB which was an Instrument of Soviet Russia. So, the type of thinking within Putin likely is similar in many ways to his Soviet Predecessors. It is all about power. Russia lost a lot of power breaking up the old Soviet Union in the 1990s and giving up Eastern Europe. Likely Russia is making a stand here with Syria. But to make sense of this you have to look at everything historically that happened to Russia (and the Soviet Union) since World War II. I think Russia is saying to the western world, "We are going to keep Assad in place no matter what you do and whether or not you think Assad is just. We support Syria and Iran and the Shias. And we are willing to collapse the governments of Iraq, Lebanon and Israel to make sure you take us seriously."

This is what I believe Russia is saying to the Western World. What the response will be from the western world now God only knows?
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