There was also anger that the White House was unwilling to challenge Turkey and Saudi Arabia over their support of extremist groups in Syria.
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Also, two weeks ago, Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj visited Pakistan to attend a meeting on Afghanistan. However Modi faced criticism from the main Indian opposition Congress Party as well.
Shaaban said Damascus perceived a softening of the West’s stance on Assad driven by a spillover of Islamic State militant attacks into its own communities – most recently in Paris on November 13 when shootings and suicide bombings killed 130 people.
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Barbara Perkins and her husband were hunkered down inside a closet when violent winds peeled the roof off their MS home. Despite being newly homeless, Perkins said the tragedy helped her “stop and realize what Christmas is all about”.
At any rate, Hersh has senior officers of the Joint Chiefs criticizing “what they see as the administration’s fixation on Assad’s primary ally, Vladimir Putin”, which is a relic of “Cold War thinking about Russian Federation and China” that does not reflect the shared interest of those old adversaries in helping the United States battle Islamist terrorism.
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And soon after, he had to “correct his congratulations”, later posting, “Adriana Gutierrez, you are still our Miss Universe! “. This time there was a biracial beauty from Japan, a refugee immigrant from Australia and Indonesian Muslim girl too.
The kingdom, a key-backer of Syrian opposition groups, has repeatedly insisted on Assad’s departure. The new intelligence estimate singled out Turkey as a major impediment to Obama’s Syria policy.
The kingdom “calls for a political solution to end Syria’s crisis”, said King Salman, who turns 80 later this month and who made only a brief appearance at the council. The administration’s policy was contradictory. To say Assad’s got to go is fine, but if you follow that through – therefore anyone is better.
Germany, Israel and Russian Federation were in contact with the Syrian army, and able to exercise some influence over Assad’s decisions – it was through them that USA intelligence would be shared. It did so on the understanding that that the Syrian leader would use it to confront Isis and Jabhat al-Nusra, another extremist group.
The actions, which started on last September 30th at the request of constitutional government in Damascus and in coordination with Syrian ground troops, led to disabling training camps, arsenals, and plants weapons and explosives. ‘We weren’t intent on deviating from Obama’s stated policies, ‘ the adviser said.
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“But sharing our assessments via the military-to-military relationships with other countries could prove productive”.
