Syria: Peaceful Solution at Last
Published: 15 September 2013 By Abiodun Giwa
Kerry and Lavrov
A peaceful resolution has at last been achieved about what to do with Bashir-al Assad's chemical weapons in Syria. The news cannot be anything short of relief for players on both side of the talks over Syria. Compared to events on the international scene two weeks ago, people are saying that it is a welcome relief that Russia and the United States have shown that peaceful diplomacy goes a long way and better than military intervention.
The world will watch development from now to November when the schedule for destruction of the chemical weapons is expected to begin, an agreement by the U.S. and Russia reveals.
And people ask who made this happen. Some people say America's toughness has compelled Putin on a hard diplomatic game. Others say Putin is in control; he has Syria under his arms and that he has successfully made America change course. His op-ed article published in the New York Times remains the talk of the town.
Daily News columnist, Charles Krauthammer describes the United States performance against Russia over Syria as a fruits of epic incompetence. According to him, Putin doesn't care one way or the other about chemical weapons; nor about dead Syria children and nor about international norms and what he cares about is power and how to keep Assad in power.
Ross Douthat in his Sunday column in the New York Times wrote that the Russian president savors this moment. In the piece titled 'Call Me Vlad', Douthat wrote "Well you cannot blame us for being annoyed with the situation. President Obama traps himself by threatening a war that Congress would not support, you sweep in with a bogus solution he has to accept, because the alternative is impotence.
But majority of Americans who have expressed opposition against military intervention in Syria heave a sigh of relief that the president has been responsive to the yearning of the people.
However, President Francois Hollande of France describes the U.S. and Russian agreement as an important step towards achieving much bigger goal of political solution to stopping the civil war ravaging the country. But added that the military option must remain to ensure pressure is not taken out of the arrangement.
President Obama welcomes the steps toward peaceful solution. In an interview aired on Sunday in major television station's news report, the president said with the peaceful negotiation and the agreement reached by Secretary of State John Kerry and Sergey V. Lavrov, Russian Foreing Minister, the U.S. is in a better position to stall Assad from using poison gas again.
Certain observers view development from the crisis on Edward Snowden, Putin's claim about the U.S. bugling of allowing Snowden to travel to a country where he could have been extradited, allowing him to sneak out of Hon Kong and getting stranded at Moscow airport; how Russia refuse to entertain the U.S. request and Snowden eventual asylum in Russia and the recent Putin's seeming victory over effort to protect Assad. Many people think it is not by military intervention alone that issues can be resolved, but through other means by being proactive, following the rules as a guide and not expecting favor from a competitor.
The world will watch development from now to November when the schedule for destruction of the chemical weapons is expected to begin, an agreement by the U.S. and Russia reveals.
And people ask who made this happen. Some people say America's toughness has compelled Putin on a hard diplomatic game. Others say Putin is in control; he has Syria under his arms and that he has successfully made America change course. His op-ed article published in the New York Times remains the talk of the town.
Daily News columnist, Charles Krauthammer describes the United States performance against Russia over Syria as a fruits of epic incompetence. According to him, Putin doesn't care one way or the other about chemical weapons; nor about dead Syria children and nor about international norms and what he cares about is power and how to keep Assad in power.
Ross Douthat in his Sunday column in the New York Times wrote that the Russian president savors this moment. In the piece titled 'Call Me Vlad', Douthat wrote "Well you cannot blame us for being annoyed with the situation. President Obama traps himself by threatening a war that Congress would not support, you sweep in with a bogus solution he has to accept, because the alternative is impotence.
But majority of Americans who have expressed opposition against military intervention in Syria heave a sigh of relief that the president has been responsive to the yearning of the people.
However, President Francois Hollande of France describes the U.S. and Russian agreement as an important step towards achieving much bigger goal of political solution to stopping the civil war ravaging the country. But added that the military option must remain to ensure pressure is not taken out of the arrangement.
President Obama welcomes the steps toward peaceful solution. In an interview aired on Sunday in major television station's news report, the president said with the peaceful negotiation and the agreement reached by Secretary of State John Kerry and Sergey V. Lavrov, Russian Foreing Minister, the U.S. is in a better position to stall Assad from using poison gas again.
Certain observers view development from the crisis on Edward Snowden, Putin's claim about the U.S. bugling of allowing Snowden to travel to a country where he could have been extradited, allowing him to sneak out of Hon Kong and getting stranded at Moscow airport; how Russia refuse to entertain the U.S. request and Snowden eventual asylum in Russia and the recent Putin's seeming victory over effort to protect Assad. Many people think it is not by military intervention alone that issues can be resolved, but through other means by being proactive, following the rules as a guide and not expecting favor from a competitor.
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