By Chriss Street.
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Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton had a very busy
weekend representing circling the globe to represent America’s
interests in the Middle East. Ms.
Clinton was especially effective using every opportunity to offer her moral
outrage at those who fail to follow America’s leadership
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On Friday she gave an impassioned speech to a meeting
of the “Friends of the Syrian People” to forcefully
demand that every nation represented at the meeting call Russia and China to
tell them:
“I don’t think Russia and China believe they are
paying any price at all – nothing at all – for standing up on behalf of the
Assad regime. The only way that will change is if every nation represented here
directly and urgently makes it clear that Russia and China will pay a
price.”
The
Chinese seem to be so impressed with Ms. Clinton’s demands they pay a price,
just 48 hours later China announced they are paying $20 billion to develop Iranian oil fields in
Yadavaran and Azadegan.
Initial production is estimated at 700,000 barrels of crude oil per day in the Azadegan
field, which is estimated to contain approximately 42 billion barrels of Iran’s
total oil reserves of approximately 560 billion barrels. Iran's Oil
Minister Rostam Qasemi told
reporters on Sunday that it took 10-15
years to reach a development agreement and that there will soon be contracts
signed with the Chinese for the development of 12 more new oil fields.
The Russians have not yet announced if they are also
“paying any price”. But the last time
the United States tried to intimidate Russia with a strategy of moral outrage
regarding their meddling in the pro-western nation of Georgia, Russia responded
by invading the country and setting up the puppet states of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. The Russians have already made it clear
regarding their willingness to provide military support for their Syrian and
Iranian allies by deploying an aircraft carrier and armed warships to patrol
the Syrian Coast.
As
for the “Friends of the Syrian People”, this weekend had its own set of
challenges. It was reported
Saturday that Saudi Arabian security forces in Qatif fired into an unarmed
protest march. Having shot a Shiite
cleric named Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, he was arrested for disturbing the
peace.
Ms. Clinton was unavailable to comment on the
unpleasantness in Saudi Arabia, because she was busy as Secretary of State
making a “powerful plea
Sunday for the rights of women in Afghanistan”
at a Tokyo global forum held in Tokyo where representatives from more than 80
nations and international organizations gathered to adopt the “Tokyo
Declaration”, pledging their support and $16 billion cash for Afghanistan
government. Clinton eloquently stated:
“The United States believes strongly that no nation can achieve peace,
stability and economic growth if half the population is not empowered.”
Unfortunately, her message of women’s liberation was
somewhat under-cut after a “horrific video emerged showing the public execution
of a 22-year-old woman accused of adultery”.
It seems that since President Obama ended the use of NATO troops to
patrol the countryside, the Taliban has once again taken over the settling of
legal affairs regarding women.
Responding to worldwide revulsion to the video
across western world; U.S. officials said Secretary of State Clinton had raised
the issue with Afghan President Hamid Karzai during her brief visit to Kabul on
Saturday. Officials emphasized that Ms.
Clinton had stressed America’s moral outrage by warning the Afghan leader that
women’s rights are a “litmus test”
for the country's progress.
There has been no comment from the Taliban, the
Syrians, the Iranians, the Russians or the Chinese.
Chriss Street will be in
studio with Paul Preston on “The Inside Education”; Streaming Live from Monday
July 9th to Friday July 13th. Click Below to listen between 7-10 PM each night: http://www.mysytv.net/kmyclive.html
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