Syria ignores cease-fire plan
From The Detroit News:
Syrian troops defied a U.N.-brokered cease-fire plan on Tuesday, launching fresh attacks on rebellious areas
Could anyone other than UN diplomats really believe the Syrian government was going to honor that ceasefire plan?
Of course, when the UN has decided that this time, unlike Libya, their actions will be confined solely to diplomatic hand-wringing, such defiance is not unsurprising.
On Tuesday, Annan insisted his peace initiative remains "very much alive" — in part because there is no viable alternative.
The U.N. has ruled out any military intervention of the type that helped bring down Libya's Moammar Gadhafi, and several rounds of sanctions and other attempts to isolate President Bashar Assad have done little to stop the bloodshed.
Too bad for its citizens that Syria lacks any commercially viable oil resources.
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