Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Taking the Safety Off?

Turkey's president is fed up with Assad:

Turkey's Anatolia news agency cites President Abdullah Gul as saying the situation in Syria has "reached a level that everything is too little, too late. We lost our confidence."

Gul said "incidents are said to be 'finished' and then another 17 are dead." Gul asked "how many will it be today?"

Of course, I'm a bit confused. Didn't the Turks give Assad an ultimatum two weeks ago? Once you do that, just implying he has to go isn't going to get him to move.

But perhaps it is a signal to the Arab League and the Russians who are both sending envoys to Damascus that no so-called reforms that might be announced after either visit will be enough if they keeps Assad in power.

I guess we'll know when the envoys leave Syrian air space on the way home.