Wow... Blood for blood.... How original. <sarcasm>

Syria thinks that because Israel can commit crimes and go unpunished, that they can too ?

There was a excellent round-table discussion yesterday on Fareed Zakaria's program. Syria is too fractious a nation for outside intervention (other than Turkish or Arab). The western nations have their hearts in the right place in regards to policy, but their populations (USA included) do not have the incentive for military involvement. This is the sad effect that the Iraq war has had on the post-WWII vision of US involvement in the world.

All things considered, I tend to agree with those voices that argue against US and/or coaltion military involvement in this nation and I'm also against arming the opposition. There is just no way to know who exactly is the opposition and how those weapons will be used in the post-Assad phase (i.e. the real interneccine war to follow). Any nation that supplies arms now will do so with good intentions to assist the oppressed in standing up against truly evil aggressors, but later on those same nations will be tarnished with the hateful atrocities that will be committed with those same weapons during the numerous acts of retaliation that always follow the splintering of multi-ethnic nation.

The Allawites with significant Christian and Druze minority groups will form a united bloc against the greater Sunni majority. This has already happened. I can only hope and assume that once significant portions of the middle and upper classes throughout all strata of the multi-ethnic Syrian society turn against Assad - then this revolution of the people will succeed.

Providing arms is analogous to adding gasoline to a raging inferno. It won't have the desired effect of helping the oppressed to gain freedom. At least not in the case of Syria.

If other Arab county's are up-set, well get together and invade Syria. You all have standing military, supplied most likely with western hardware, etc. It's an Arab problem, not the western countries problem. It's up to the Arabs to handle it.

You want help from the US. Fine, we will help you, AFTER you clean up Syira, then CLEAN UP your own country, getting rid of these hate preaching Mullahs, give all people, expecially women, equal rights. When you get that done, call. By then we might have changed our mindset on the Arab nations.Until then, not only NO, but hell no.

An ally of Russia or China murdering their own people in the streets?????? NO IT CAN'T BE!!!! The Syrian government is simply misunderstood. I'm sure this whole thing is just a conspiracy by FOX News to bring ratings up. (Sarcasm if you can't tell...)

Syria is a civil war. Russia and China are reading this right. We are not innocent in this operation. I figure we have black ops activities big time there as well as slipping arms in. The US has it's fingers in here in an effort to antagonize Iran hoping for a reaction that will justify war. Unfortunate there are far too many Americans who mindlessly support anything the US government says. Been there, did that.

Just curious but does their beloved Allah teach to kill their own race to the point of extinction? Whatever, One would think it might be time to shop for a new deity....

I guess everything syria has done up to this point is ok. Why release this now? Were syrian actions up until now not crimes against humanity? Not enough civilians are dead, so lets wait until we reach some arbitrary number. The UN is afraid of upsetting members of the security council, essentially afraid of its own shadow, so it turns a blind eye until peace-keepers are suggested.

Better hold off, the russians or the chinese may still have a trick up their sleeve. How many people need die before the benefit is greater than the risk of upsetting 2 foot dragging, petty countries?

I say at least 10,000 more.

Maybe 30,000; realistically.

Earlier on Monday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow would not support a plan to send U.N. peacekeepers into Syria unless there was a halt to violence by both government forces and their armed opponents.

Or in other words, "Syrian government can continue to kill civilians, Russia is fine with this."

And?

Although I feel much sympathy for the suffering Syrians, I can say without hesitation that the U.S. should not get involved in this situation. Let the Syrians coreligionist respond. Fact: Turkey has one of the strongest military forces in the region. Its force is probably better than 3/4ths of the countries in the EU. Let the Turks go in and help the Syrians. Of all the countries in the region, there will be less of a political fallout if Turkey intervenes as opposed to Saudi Arabia who also has a strong military force. If their fellow Muslims don't care to intervene, why should we.

I always love it when this BIMBO, Navi Pillay, comes out and speaks. She has castigated the U.S. and now she is upset about crimes against when we intervene anywhere.

Tell ya what Sweetheart, why don't you and a group of like-minded, well meaning but reality-deprived airheads go to Syria, wag your finger at President Assad, and see how that works for you.

Along with Assad her are some people Navi thinks should be tried for war crimes.

of course George Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld but there is also

BarackObama, Leon Panetta and Robert Gates for the unjustified murder of Usama Bin Laden

Barack Obama and NATO for its crimes against Libya

Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth and the Prime Minister of Great Britain for the London Riots

the President of France for the French ruling on Burkas

King Fayd of Saudi Arabia

The Israel I Prime Minister and the entire Israeli Knesset

and the list goes on and on.

those not mentioned by Navi..... Fidel Castro, President Amabidajab(sp) of Iran, and Hugo Chavez.

Navi Pillay cannot/will not do anything about the ~ 20 000 South Africans who are killed annually in simple criminal violence ( and she is South African ) - yet she sets herself up to do something in Syria. In addition, several hundred thousand people were killed in Iraq in approximately the last decade, there was torture, mass imprisonment, cities ( with civilians ) bombarded - and we hear nothing, no hint of investigation with culpability to be established. It seems that the importance of your death is determined by who is killing you, your nationality, and for what 'reason' - possibly true or contrived. If she functioned to a consistent moral compass that would not be the case as selective outrage is no outrage - so she is probably just another opportunist. That is not to excuse what is happening in Syria, and also not to excuse other events in neighbouring states in the near past.

Abolish the UN. All they do is take taxpayer money and start wars. Get then the he!! out of the USA. let another country support their causes.

I wonder just who will bring the war criminals to justice ??? The UNSC ? Don't make me laugh......It will be "us" ....as in the United States..... (The big bad wolf/ Police of the world)..... You just keep up the condemnations and we'll keep building you pretty gazillion dollar buildings. Thanks.

RE: "Crimes against humanity were continuing in Syria and must not go unpunished, the United Nation's human rights chief said on Monday." The UN worries about this in Syria but says nothing about crimes against humanity in Iran, Pakistan, China, Yemen, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, etc.

why should rebels lay down their arms before they attack regime troops, for months last year it was protestors alone bearing brunt of the killings. If rebel lay down their arms month from now whats stoping regime completely destorying them without resistence. Russia is using this new thing as excuse dont think they even care. They lost alot of prestiage for allowing bloodshep to continue and to openly sell arms for regime to use against civilians. Its russia who needs to leave and because russia so involved they need make new un rule that any country in secruity council involved in any case shouldnt be allow to vote its almost like this for example (( lets say judge son killed somone and then kid goes to court but judge happens to be murderers dad u seem my example) they need do that for secruity council. Russia lossing respect and more by this stance with syria and russia is now finally well hated in middleeast

Now that this has been said the UN will expect the majority of support for a military action to come from... guess who? Anyone?

What country is going to have the guts to step up and assasinate this brutal, murdering,scumbag killer coward who hides in a bunker while his cowardly henchmen kill innocent citizens on the streets?

how about the Christians copts in Egypt, they are killing them in certain area and destroying their houses and kidnapping their teenagers girls and convert them to Muslim and destroying their businesses and burning their churches and beside the abuse of the Christians all over Egypt, UN chief, You are a piece of none fairness and it sounds like you are a piece of who you know. you should change of the name of the UN to UN who you know and who you have in it to support you.

All nations of the planet should have convened at the UN to allow foreign intervention in Syria. Syria is for the Syrian people to live in peace and with dignity! But now, they are being slaughtered like pigs and the international community should not allow it! For God´s sake, we live in the 21^st century. Especially, in this particular case, the Arab League Nations should act overwhelmingly to cause the fall of those demented murderers Assad, both Bashar and Naher.

Russia and China have demonstrated that they too want to have a free hand in their countries to maim, assassinate and jail their nationals, at will.

Why doesn´t the International Penal Court seek to investigate and prosecute Assad´s animal behavior, ASP?

Nice, huh, after 40 years of his family being in power, this stupid animal named Bashar Assad -- all he knows is killing his own people with his country´s army. He has reached the point of no return and should be killed, alongside his family. Lest, of course, in the case of Assad, countries like the UK, where his bitchy wife is from, try to give him asylum. At this point, any type of sectarian violence is better than outright killings by this demented moron and his brother Maher. The Sunni Muslims will in the end prevail, while the Alawite, related to Shiite Islam, will probably be massacred in Syria.

The Royal Saudis, and other blue blooded Arabs, including Assad, and other (assassins) “presidents” of the region´s economies, are not reforming anything in the political arena, like redefining their rules for economic growth in democracy, western-type. They´ll all be kicked out eventually! And, when the population realizes that the West did not help, they´ll surely turn to more fanatic means, engulfing both politics and religion, as in Iran!! Eventually, to protect oil sources the West might have to set up a NO-FLY ZONE all over the Middle East, case by case.

Bashar Al Assad is a despot, demented moron, and murderer – an international shame for the 21st century -- and should be executed quickly by Syria´s (shabiha in rebellion), or foreign, armed forces even for the sake of saving their skins if not solely to save Arab lives, while at the same time taking over and installing a temporary military government,, that over a period of 2 years could bring things back to normal. Needless to say, in the process, the armed forces there should be purged of any of Assad´s cronies so that these freedom fights continue for the benefit of the Syrian population.

The only political system that will last forever, so to speak, will be a western style-type democracy. Apparently this truth has been realized by a whole new generation of Syrians educated within and outside of that country. The internet has helped bridge the technological gap and to come to full realization that their young lives were meaningless and had no future with corrupt animals like Assad, in power.

However, Syrians will not have freedom and dignity for a long time. They have to work at it, together with their armed forces that must see their role as only temporary -- 2 years -- until the country´s new institutional basis is set up so that political parties can prosper in peace and without fear. Once this is achieved, elections must be convened so that regional-party political representatives can be elected nationwide with a view to integrating a National Assembly to draft a new Constitution for the country. This would be the beginning of a new future for the Syrian population.

Meanwhile, if captured alive, the military government should prosecute Assad so that the death penalty can be brought to bear on this god forsaken animal, and his family. Their own and family assets, in general, should be confiscated in Syria as well as outside of the country. Those monies belong to the people of Syria.

But more than anything, the world must congratulate the Syrian population for acting with great courage, with their hearts and minds, to try to topple a ruthless and corrupt regime from the face of the earth.

Needless to say many more countries will follow, not only in the Middle East – mainly, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Iran, etc. -- but also in Latin America, especially in the case of those with presidential lunatics trying to emulate the Cuban political system which under the noses of the USA and the rest of the Americas has failed miserably, i.e., Venezuela and his gorilla Chavez.

In general, the combination of authoritarian rule, high unemployment, poor opportunities for social advancement, demographic youth bulges, low public investment in education and health and other public services, and anger at high levels of corruption, and outright thievery, in the Middle East and North Africa, and in Latin America, will prompt public uprisings that will topple their leaders. Chavez, Assad are definitely in this list after their close friend Gadhafi has moved on to better pastures, in hell! Needless to say, the Cuban government also needs to be overthrown!

Instead, Presidents from these poor, backward economies, that have not even approached the take-off stage in economic development should instead concentrate their public administration efforts in fighting corruption, reducing the size of their inefficient and corrupt public sectors, and increasing public/private investments with the help of the multilateral financial community -- including in the strategic social sectors; i.e., education, health, and basic services – to increase employment.

The UN Security Council should give the OK for NATO to intervene also in Syria, so that these people are not slaughtered like animals by their own army. The intervention at this stage should be humanitarian aid, drones, and light weapons with plenty of ammunition so that these peoples can defend themselves.

In the final analysis given the severity of the situation, the UN/NATO should propose that Syria, a sovereign country, transfer its right to national self-determination to an overseer. The UN should argue that given the failure and the criminality of the Syrian state, UN and NATO members have the power and moral right to suspend the principle of national self-determination. In other words, Syria should be taken over by the rest of the world to stop the mass assassinations being conducted there by Bashar Assad.

More than TEN THOUSAND SYRIANS HAVE ALREADY DIED in their fight for LIBERTY!

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i think you want to give the country to fanatic Muslims and Muslim brotherhood like Egypt and Libya and Tunisia, as you see in Egypt asked for freedom and what they got worse Muslim brotherhood evil and salfeen the slaughters with the sword with the name of Allah to kill non Muslims and it will happened the same thing in Syria so please keep your comment to your self or go pull other people you do not have any clue

Whoa what a liar that Syrian FM minister is....does he need a ride to HOMS to see whose tanks those are! Maybe they're Qhadaffi's tanks and he can catch a ride back to Damascus in it. So who's tanks are they?

We're damned before we step in, for the duration we're there, and after the regime has been toppled, then accused of toppling regimes, interferring in other countries business. I just don't get where some of you idiots come up with these fickle ideas, and yes the whole world needs oil not just the US.

And damned if we don't.

Whew man, If the 5th Amendment applied in Syria NBC reporters might have advised he take it, absolutely.