Pro-Israeli US Republican presidential candidates have openly promoted anti-Syrian terrorism during a primary election debate, calling for arming Syrian armed gangs through the support of Turkey and Saudi Arabia.The hawkish candidates made the remarks during a primary election debate in the US State of Arizona, the last one scheduled before voters head to the polls in Michigan and Arizona on February 28 and Super Tuesday on March 6.
"We need to work with Saudi Arabia and with Turkey to say, 'You guys provide the kind of weaponry that's needed to help the rebels inside Syria,'" said Mitt Romney, a former Massachusetts governor. - Newt Gingrich, the former Speaker of the US House of Representatives, also boasted that American allies were covertly helping to destroy the Syrian government.
"There are plenty of Arab-speaking groups that would be quite happy. There are lots of weapons available in the Middle East," he said.- The comments came after the Obama administration announced that the US will consider military assistance to armed groups fighting the Syrian government.
- “If we can't get Assad to yield to the pressure that we are all bringing to bear, we may have to consider additional measures,” said US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland, but she declined to
elaborate on what those measures might be. - Senior US Republican Senator John McCain has also insisted that it is time for the international community to offer growing assistance to the Syrian opposition.
President Assad said on Monday that some foreign countries are fueling unrest in Syria by supporting and funding armed terrorist groups fighting against the government. He said that they are blocking attempts to end months of unrest in the country and preventing it from treading the path of reforms.Syria has been experiencing unrest since mid-March 2011. Damascus blames “outlaws, saboteurs, and armed terrorist groups” for the unrest, asserting that it is being orchestrated from abroad.
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