{"id":210239,"date":"2015-12-20T01:08:32","date_gmt":"2015-12-20T01:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/neocons-object-to-syrian-democracy\/"},"modified":"2015-12-21T18:03:27","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T18:03:27","slug":"neocons-object-to-syrian-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/neocons-object-to-syrian-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Neocons Object to Syrian Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>By Robert Parry<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post\u2019s editorial board is livid that President Barack Obama appears to have accepted the Russian position that the Syrian people should decide for themselves who their future leaders should be \u2014 when the Post seems to prefer that\u00a0the choice\u00a0be made by neoconservative think tanks in Washington or other outsiders.<\/p>\n<p>So, in a furious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/what-happened-to-regime-change-on-syria-the-white-house-accommodates-russia\/2015\/12\/17\/62238450-a370-11e5-b53d-972e2751f433_story.html\"><u>editorial<\/u><\/a> on Friday, the Post castigated Secretary of State John Kerry for saying \u2014 after a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow \u2014 that the Obama administration and Russia see the political solution to Syria \u201cin fundamentally the same way,\u201d meaning that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad could stand for election in the future.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16711\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 310px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/23745062596_1e8bb82bc6_z_432_1.jpg?387be0\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16711\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16711\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif?387be0\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/23745062596_1e8bb82bc6_z_432_1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/23745062596_1e8bb82bc6_z_432_1-260x146.jpg 260w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/23745062596_1e8bb82bc6_z_432_1-160x90.jpg 160w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/23745062596_1e8bb82bc6_z_432_1.jpg 432w\" alt=\"Russian President Vladimir Putin greets Secretary of State John Kerry before meetings at the Kremlin on Dec. 15, 2015. (State Department photo)\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/23745062596_1e8bb82bc6_z_432_1-300x169.jpg\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16711\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/23745062596_1e8bb82bc6_z_432_1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Russian President Vladimir Putin greets Secretary of State John Kerry before meetings at the Kremlin on Dec. 15, 2015. (State Department photo)\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/23745062596_1e8bb82bc6_z_432_1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/23745062596_1e8bb82bc6_z_432_1-260x146.jpg 260w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/23745062596_1e8bb82bc6_z_432_1-160x90.jpg 160w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/23745062596_1e8bb82bc6_z_432_1.jpg 432w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Russian President Vladimir Putin greets Secretary of State John Kerry before meetings at the Kremlin on Dec. 15, 2015. (State Department photo)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Post wrote: \u201cUnfortunately, that increasingly appears to be the case \u2013 and not because Mr.\u00a0Putin has altered his position. For four years, President Obama demanded the departure of Mr.\u00a0Assad, who has killed hundreds of thousands of his own people with chemical weapons, \u2018barrel bombs,\u2019 torture and other hideous acts. Yet in its zeal to come to terms with Mr.\u00a0Putin, the Obama administration has been slowly retreating from that position.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2015\/12\/19\/neocons-object-to-syrian-democracy\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Robert Parry The Washington Post\u2019s editorial board is livid that President Barack Obama appears to have accepted the Russian position that the Syrian people should decide for themselves who their future leaders should be \u2014 when the Post seems to prefer that\u00a0the choice\u00a0be made by neoconservative think tanks in Washington or other outsiders. So, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-210239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}