Looks were going to "free" Syria next...

[Cebu_4_2]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiMmmeuNOwI

Enough doon and genocide for 1 day, I'll look at the other sides of the coins tomorrow.

Night all

[Ponce]

The power of many can be the power of one so that even an elephant will run from a mouse.

My feet are cold'
and my blanket warm
going to my blanket
to get my feet warm.
nite nite

[Awoke]

Isaias (Isaiah) 17:1
The burden of Damascus. Behold Damascus shall cease to be a city, and shall be as a ruinous heap of stones.

[Half Sense]

Obviously Syria needs freedom, democracy, and a Central Bank.

[keehah]

What we see reading the Western Corporate news must be a lot like the Germans saw when they were controled by Naziland.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/30/world/middleeast/30policy.html

WASHINGTON — A brutal Arab dictator with a long history of enmity toward the United States turns tanks and troops against his own people, killing hundreds of protesters. His country threatens to split along sectarian lines, with the violence potentially spilling over to its neighbors, some of whom are close allies of Washington.

Libya? Yes, but also Syria...

“Our goal is to end the violence and create an opening for the Syrian people’s legitimate aspirations,” said a spokesman for the National Security Council, Tommy Vietor. “These are among the U.S. government’s strongest available tools to promote these outcomes.”

The European Union said Friday that it was preparing an arms embargo against Syria and threatened further sanctions and cuts in aid. And in Geneva, the United Nations Human Rights Council passed a resolution condemning the violence, though the statement was diluted from one drafted by the United States.

A version of this article appeared in print on April 30, 2011, on page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: U.S. Takes Cautious Steps Over Crackdown by Syria.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13245165

The executive order signed by President Obama gives the US "new tools to target individuals and entities determined to have engaged in human rights abuses in Syria, including those related to repression", the White House said in a statement.

The sanctions will have little immediate impact. Syria is already under US sanctions and Syrian officials don't really have any assets here. EU sanctions will be more painful.

US officials said the sanctions were intended to send a message to the Syrian people that those responsible for the abuses must face consequences for their actions.

The officials added that the Commerce Department would also be taking steps against the Syrian government.

"I have determined that the government of Syria's human rights abuses... constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy and economy of the United States, and warrant the imposition of additional sanctions," Mr Obama said in the order.