UNSC fails to pass resolution on Syria attacks

[Andy]

Within this article about the UN stuff are some details of a vicious attack that happened in Damascus.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/unsc-fa...syria-attacks/

At least 53 people were killed on Thursday when a car bomb exploded near Syria’s ruling Baath party headquarters in the capital. The bomb also caused damage to the nearby Russian Embassy. Elsewhere in the city, two other bombs struck intelligence offices, killing 22, and mortar rounds hit the army’s central command, activists said.

Blood, carnage, more of the same. I personally to not recall that many people killed in a car bomb. They're finding more and more ways to mass-murder people with a single hit.

Damascus is falling apart, folks...right before our eyes and one has to really wonder if this is the start of Isaiah 17 being fulfilled.

[Irvine]

Re: UNSC fails to pass resolution on Syria attacks

Anyone else think it strange that no one, especially the US has gotten more involved in this conflict? it's not like the US to just wait & see what develops, is it all down to the Obama administration & the change in foreign policy? or possibly the Russian factor?

[Andy]

Re: UNSC fails to pass resolution on Syria attacks

As I recall past articles on this Russia and Iran have both warned western powers not to get involved or there'll be repercussions we don't want to deal with. So both the Russians and the US are fighting the war by proxy - covertly (supposedly) sending support for their side of the conflict but in essence fighting each other.

[Irvine]

Re: UNSC fails to pass resolution on Syria attacks

Hmm, meanwhile civilians are dying everyday.

[SAT]

Re: UNSC fails to pass resolution on Syria attacks

jmvho?

There is a power struggle going on but note my last post...
http://wedg.millenniumweekend.org/fo...t=40654&page=4

The technicality so far seem to be an invitation/ protocol.

In Africa both are involved, but by invitation.

Russia is worried about the west going over the heads of the leaders of countries.
Really China and Russia are both worried about being next and the west pushing them out using their own people to do it.

Lavrov told a news conference Washington had disappointed Moscow by blocking a statement condemning "terrorist attacks" near the Russian embassy in Damascus that killed more than 50 people and that Washington was threatening international unity in the "war on terror".

"We believe these are double standards," Lavrov said after talks with China's foreign minister.

"And we see in it a very dangerous tendency by our American colleagues to depart from the fundamental principle of unconditional condemnation of any terrorist act, a principle which secures the unity of the international community in the fight against terrorism," he said.

A spokeswoman for the U.S. mission at the United Nations said it had not blocked any statement of condemnation but had sought to balance the text with criticism of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces, which it said Russia had rejected.

"We strongly condemn all indiscriminate terrorist attacks against civilians or against diplomatic facilities," said Erin Pelton, spokeswoman for the U.S. mission.

Ties between Washington and Moscow have worsened since Vladimir Putin returned to Russia's presidency last May.

http://news.yahoo.com/russia-accuses...100757839.html