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Sen. Bob Corker: Let’s face it, we are empowering Assad

“It is very difficult at present, with Russia having stepped into the vacuum … now it’s a direct conflict with Russia,“ according to the head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee., “which is why there’s unlikely to be a Plan B.”
Sen.Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) told reporters at a breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor on Wednesday.
American inaction, Corker maintained — particularly following President Obama’s failure to act on the “red line” he imposed in 2013 — has effectively empowered Russia’s support of embattled leader Bashar al-Assad.
“Let’s face it: we are empowering Assad,” Corker maintained on Wednesday.
“When we did not hit Assad in September of 2013 and said to the world — said to the world — that we could not be counted on … Who propped up Assad more than anyone? We did!” Corker exclaimed. “We began by propping up Assad and making these hollow comments about ‘He had to go.’”
Corker’s comments on Wednesday came on the heels of this week’s announcement that the U.S. and Russia had reached a “cessation of hostilities” scheduled to go into effect on Saturday.
The arrangement, which many viewed skeptically.
Washington and Moscow have been at odds in the Syrian chaos. While both countries have claimed to be trying to root out terrorists, Russian forces have frequently targeted U.S.-backed rebels trying to unseat Assad from power.

 

Source: The Hill, 24 Feb 2016

 

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