Kerry: Assad Doesn't Have to Go, Samantha Power: Yes, He Does
“The meaning of ‘Assad has to go’ has evolved.”
December 16, 2015
Daniel Greenfield
"These are my principles. If you don’t like them I have others." Groucho Marx
A week ago, MSNBC was celebrating Obama's "victory" over Putin in Syria. By victory, MSNBC meant that Putin agreed to peace negotiations that would decide the fate of Syria. Then Kerry pressured the Saudis into accepting Iran's presence at these negotiations. Putin had already rolled Kerry once over Syrian WMDs so the outcome could have been foreseen ahead of time.
As one abashed U.S. official told me, “The meaning of ‘Assad has to go’ has evolved.”
"The United States and our partners are not seeking so-called regime change," Kerry told reporters in the Russian capital after meeting President Vladimir Putin.
Okay, but Samantha Power apparently disagrees.
The United States' ambassador to the United Nations says the U.S. position on Syrian President Bashar Assad has not changed: "There is going to have to be a political transition, and Assad will have to go."
Samantha Power spoke to reporters Wednesday ahead of Friday's major international conference on Syria in New York.
So who exactly speaks for Obama? Obama has contradicted both Kerry and Power in the past. But Kerry appears to have the least real influence when it comes to bucking anyone in Obama's inner circle.
Previously, Obama had already humiliated Kerry over Syrian WMDs in much the same way. So did Kerry offer a unilateral concession or are we just playing word games with the definition of "regime change"? That's the clown act Obama is running. Every time the media ridicules the idea of one of the Republican candidates being able to handle the job, what they aren't telling you is that the guy on the job couldn't run a sandwich shop outside a weight less clinic.
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