Huh? That's like having you, your mother-in-law and me take a poll to decide if Bloomberg should resign as mayor of New York. I'm sure he would be happy to comply with our decision...

And when he leaves the alawaties, a miniority tribe will be wiped out by the arabs. We would be supporting butcherers... You arab obama lovers make me want to puke. If any of you knew about the situation, you would be supporting russia and assad. Unfortunately, you all buy into this media propoganda. Any remaining christians can consider themselves dead. Maybe we send american troops..that's right, lets add a few more to our veterans population in the name of ALLAH! A few more billion is good for american commercial interests! We love the killing anyway, as we are running out of things to do.

WTF are Hillary and Barak out of their minds? The man is responsible for more deaths than the terrorists of 9-11. We would not offer them asylum. I'm sure the Syrian people will love us if we take this slime in. We took in the Shah of Iran when he got kicked out and you know how well that worked. Hell we backed his regime. Iranians loved us so much they held the embassy staff hostage for over 400 days as soon as the Ayatollah got it. Let the Russians have him. He's their buddy.We can target some low level Taliban guy but won't target the head of a country we don't like and want out of power. Romney is going after the wrong front. He should stress this administrations failure in world diplomacy and international policy. We need to get out of the middle east all together. It's a good thing Hitler isn't still alive or he'd be living in a brownstone in New York. This administration has caused the fall of American influence and prestige around the world. He's circumventing Congress on all this s--t. You worry about American influence in the Middle East well we got no influence there. We are killing their civillians and take in a dictator that the people want to overthrow. We have enough monetary needs here in the US so as long as we want to throw money away let's at least speread it around where it can do some good here. Wit Obama adding $5Trillion to the national debt we can't afford the involvment over there. Presidnet Johnson said he didn't intend to be the first US Presidnet to lose a war. He was and we haven't won one since.

Yes, well,, in some respects this was my idea,,, the guy[assad] is an obvious high level psychopath[and like all of them he/she! doesn know it],..as such,, using normal intelligent tactics will fail,, and cost more lives,..This is actually the smart play, and well done Mr Putin! and the UK etc,....what is more important?.. shutting down the violence and loss of innocent lives?.. or some kind of nebulous "revenge"??.. choose one,..the thing is, with the old school dictators,.. we need to get some kind of "out" in play,..so these violent situations are nipped in the bud before!! people start dieing,..rest assured,,, many many despots are watching this situation very closely to see what happens,, the message we send will effect many others,,, millions!!,..this may not be the best? solution,, but it is! a solution,,, "revenge is mine" sayeth the Lord,,, its not for you me we to take revenge,..not our "job",..smart move!,.. and nice to see that some actually do listen now and again,,If we have to use OOTB?, then lets get that in action,, and sooner is probably better,,, no??.."make it so"...BTW, the "after"??, that needs to be put in play, right now!...some kind of temporary UN GOV team,.. with!! representation from all sides as advisors etc,, and then, say, a year from now?,, elections and a new deal,..and get rid of the military, they are only a standing temptation,[look at Egypt for that?],, and really?? why do they even need! one,.. eh??..better to spend the money/manpower and brains on rebuilding etc,,,there were very valid reasons why no military at all! was allowed within 300 miles of Rome,,"gangs of men with guns",, can shut down Democracy, often do too!,,, for their! interests, not the peoples interests,,we can learn from such history,, cant we??..anyways,, re;Putin?.. smart!...can learn,, and! capable of thinking OOTB,,, very good! sir!!,,..

Give him and his wife asylum wherever he wants, then give seal team 6 their next assignment.

NOT TO WORRY!!! He won't leave, just like Diem and Saddam, and WE THE PEOPLE, being the altrustic, benevolent good citizens of the world that we are - will be obliged to INVADE AND FORCIBLY REMOVE the evil-doing, son of Satan, just like we did in South Vietnam and Iraq. Well, actually, the CIA assassinated Diem in South Vietnam, but we invaded anyway. Move over Saddam, here comes BASHAR and ANOTHER war. Looks like we're going to make democracies out of those mid-east nations whether they like it or not.

Who cares about him - but his wife looks HOT!! Save her!!

Keep it simple and assinate him. Why does the west want to harbor a mass murderer....because, he is one of them! Birds of a feather flock together. Bush has room at his ranch, they can be buddies.

Would you have gave Charles Manson a pass on his conviction? It should be no different for Assad, he is a cancer that needs to be removed. He and his "Tribal" thugs are killing people because of their ethnic background and lack of obedience to their ruling tribe. Their "tribal wars" have been going on for centuries. They are mass murderers and should be harshly dealt with in kind. They are plain and simple; War criminals that ALL of them should be executed. China and Russia should be punished for their interference in this matter also. China is buy Syria's oil and Russia is selling them weapons, between the two of them; they don't want Syria's little war to end

I wonder who in the WH leaked this one?

Once again bold western leadership strikes again. Three cheers for our patsy State Dept.!

It's too bad the international community has their hands tied on direct intervention. We're all broke, tired of long wars, and worried about those who would label our action as "meddling".

It's not meddling though if some of the human suffering can be ameliorated. Would you help someone you saw being roughed up? If you were able, I would hope so; or at least call 911. Problem is, intervention is likely to cause at least a temporary increase in suffering. Good points.

A scum bag like Assad should be made to pay; but this is the next best thing. Hope it works.

Side note: Wonder how Mrs Assad is doing, now that she's banned from the European boutiques?

Maybe they should offer the same deal to Obama.

In the recent past, all nations of the planet should have convened at the UN to allow foreign intervention in Syria, when they had a chance to do so. 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.

By their vote, many times, against military intervention, 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. They have plenty of experience in producing dead and mutilated bodies all over their countryside.

With this background, Assad promoted a fake, cynical referendum, on constitutional changes, to make everybody believe that he is the good guy, and that the people of Syria deserve to be slaughtered day after day, with no international reaction in sight.

Of course, all this, also, after recent elections in Yemen where a single candidate, the Vice-president of Saleh, another assassin, ran for reelection; and, of course, won.

And, not a word from the State Department or the majority of chanceries across the world, especially of those countries that consider themselves highly industrialized, super developed, and the world´s guardians of freedom, free democracy, and human rights.

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

Sure, a cease fire is good news, but the Assassin himself – Assad family – should step down and be tried internationally for crimes against humanity. If this is not an aim of the UN, they will have failed miserably.

[But, NO!, stupid Hillary now wants Assad to be granted immunity. I guess they´ll put him up in Blair House and allow him to go jogging every morning around the White House, and Memorial Bridge, Foggy Bottom, Potomac Park, and the like, just so as to keep an eye on him. Meanwhile, if extradited to the US, harmless Julian Assange, of Wiki Leaks, will probably be sent to Guantanamo, to be tortured, first, and executed later according to US law. This shows the hypocritical nature of the State Department´s foreign policy guidelines].

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´s been president for 11 years, but he has reached the point of no return and should be killed, alongside his family. The referendum should be for his ouster from this planet, period! He´ll surely lose. Lest, of course, in the case of Assad, countries like the UK, 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 – the Mossad -- 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. In Egypt, the military government should be forced to resign!

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. They should be armed by the rest of the world.

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.

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. Assad is 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 from the butchers of Damascus.

But what can the world do with stupid interventions like the one given NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen stating that the alliance had no intention of intervening in Syria, even if there was a UN mandate for this. He also rejected the idea of providing logistical support for possible ‘humanitarian corridors’ to Syria’s worst-hit cities. Rasmussen said that Syria is too complicated, ethnically, politically, and religiously, adding that Middle Eastern countries should find a solution to the conflict.

This very stupid general should resign his post. Rasmussen’s comments are risky, because they could actually give Syrian President Bashar al-Assad even greater confidence to crack down on the opposition, thus making NATO intervention more likely, if Assad uses now even deadlier force, at which point the West would come under rising pressure to intervene.

Get the cowardly generals out of the way, get them some boos and whores, and let them have a war with their cowardly selves.

McCain is right!! Strike the murderers now! In this sense, the USA should at least coordinate a first and good strike against the Syrian government. Hire Mossad??? I mean, so much sh-t is said about Israel wanting to stop Iran but meanwhile with the Iranians help, Assad is butchering thousands of human beings and Israel just sits idly by.

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!

And the rest of the world, especially her neighbors, should not allow it!

Unless, of course, Ms. Clinton invites this murderer for a state visit to the USA, and puts him up at Blair House.

Let the Syrian people decide, we the U.S. and every one else should stay out of it, if and when the arab countries around syria send in troops and weapons to deal with this we do not need to get involved. If we do, we are again perceived as occupiers like every time we have fought for the arabs/muslims and have put our brave men/women in harms way and costing the tax payers billions of dollars needed to rebuild our own country.

I see..the message here to all future Dictators is to keep killing people until they offer you Amnesty. What a great plan </sarcasm>

Just get Assad and his 'entourage' out of Syria and let the 'off the books' folks from some other country do the wet work in another place. You can bet that Syria's 'rebels' will find Assad wherever he goes, since he won't have a protected palace to hide in and an army of bodyguards to keep him safe -- money or not -- once he is out of Syria.

Before immunity can be granted Ass ad must promise to conceal all of the Iraqi chemical warfare weapons moved to Syria prior to operation enduring freedom. To find them now would be quite embarrassing. Why do you think Ass ad's bud obaaaama has hesitated on moving in on Syria.

I'm sure Obama can get him a deal at Martha's Vineyard.

How soon the West forgets Neville Chamberlain and his appeasement of Hitler. Just as Hitler was responsible for the deaths of German people and the destruction of its cities, Mussolini of Italy's, and Tojo of Japan's, Assad deserves nothing less than what Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi got. With all the remaining tyrants in the world who have yet to be brought to justice, the West has no business offering amnesty to any of them. Yemen is an insignificant turd dropping on the Arabian Peninsula. Assad can't be offered a palace in Teheran with his queen. Nothing short of confiscation of all his property and wealth and his execution are acceptable in the civilized world.

If Obama gives up power we may also offer immunity for Fast and Furious?

Next up is pardons for most, if not all of Obama's appointed cronies, Czars and Czarinas, some of which are also responsible for deaths as well. What arrogance.

Just when you think you have seen the depths of hypocrisy and double-standards in western behaviour as exemplified in their tratment of Libya and Iraq, now we have this. They are actually thinking of giving succour to the Damascus Slaughterer! They stand by and watch as the blood of thousands flowed in the streets of Damascus, seemingly unable to muster any of the zeal for 'democracy' and 'freedom' that drove them to ferret out Muammar Gaddafi and allow his body to be dragged through the streets like a wild animal. Instead, they want to have Assad home for dinner. Well, Well. There must surely be a day of judgment when all of the evil deeds of man will be called to account.

What I find telling is if the US isnt throwing its full weight into it, no one else steps up but to condemn and write a strongly worded appeal. When the US does get involved physically, OMG evil warmongers raping and killing babies!!!

Gotta say it, F Syria, F the middle east and FUUUUUUCK the UN.

lol...she is kinda hot