While President Obama was shaming the world for not doing more to address the Syrian refugee crisis Tuesday, Secretary of State John Kerry was attending a support group — the International Syria Support Group, to be exact.
At International #Syria Support Group meeting today, reaffirmed the need to reduce violence and allow safe, unimpeded flow of aid. #ISSG pic.twitter.com/dvJSImLqTe
— John Kerry (@JohnKerry) September 20, 2016
Things might have been a bit awkward, with Kerry discussing the safe flow of aid into Syria while seated next to Russia’s foreign minister, seeing as the United States has concluded that Russian warplanes were responsible for Monday’s airstrike on a UN aid convoy that killed several aid workers.
Breaking: US reaches preliminary conclusion #Russian warplanes bombed Syrian aid convoy, officials tell @barbarastarrcnn
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) September 20, 2016
Yes they did. Putin has grown so bold because nobody is opposing him. He is complicit in war crimes. Stop him
— karen munro (@BaileyPittipat) September 20, 2016
What about the red line Obama drew years ago? Maybe it’s hard to see from the sky at night.
Obama should declare deep concern
— olexiy (@olexiy_o) September 20, 2016
https://twitter.com/DANEgerus/status/778320901255200768
https://twitter.com/AnneBayefsky/status/778322775425417216
This is known as "Flexibility" https://t.co/KmViBJLO64
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) September 20, 2016
I'd be willing to bet this "preliminary conclusion" was purposely withheld until Obama finished addressing the UN today. https://t.co/xbilEvu78t
— Christian Vanderbrouk (@UrbanAchievr) September 20, 2016
Here’s a shocker courtesy of Politico: it seems that “indefatigable optimist” Kerry is having trouble staying positive about the Syrian peace process.
The latest chaos is Syria is putting Kerry's optimism is put to the test https://t.co/9IvjNMIo8P | AP Photo pic.twitter.com/7fUMWwA2Bz
— POLITICO (@politico) September 20, 2016
In an email to Politico, Elliott Abrams, former deputy national security adviser to President George W. Bush, said that Kerry “seems unaware that it’s simply impossible to win at the negotiating table what you do not win on the ground, and he seems to be unaware that he keeps getting outsmarted and outmaneuvered.”
https://twitter.com/DanWhitcomb/status/778360428145483777
Kerry, of course, had ridiculed Mitt Romney during the 2012 campaign for naming Russia as America’s top geopolitical foe, and it looks like it’s Russia’s turn to laugh at Kerry. That supposed airstrike on UN aid trucks? Russia says it just caught fire.
https://twitter.com/CuffyMeh/status/778228362842083328
So Russia didn't attack that aid convoy. It just caught fire. What a relief https://t.co/xUXz2PGJId pic.twitter.com/8ScqzSvvxe
— Dave Brown (@dave_brown24) September 21, 2016
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