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Syriasly

9/12/2013

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Late night comics and political pundits and plain old news commentators have been having a good time quipping about Secretary of State John Kerry accidentally stumbling into a possible diplomatic solution in Syria.  Jon Stewart had a hilarious comparison with video of Mister Magoo wandering around blindly but coming out of his disaster okay.  John Kerry, getting a random question and then just off-handedly making an off-the-wall comment that Russia picked up on the very next day, and then immediately after, Syria itself. 
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Seriously?  People think this was a stumbling, bumbling accident?  Seriously?

I don't remotely think this was an accident.  I don't think that John Kerry, a man not known for having an ounce of whimsy, made a whimsical, outlandish out-of-the-blue suggestion at a dead-serious press conference about how Syria could just give up its chemical weapons.

I don't remotely think that Russia -- a nation not known for acting haphazardly and off-the-hip, without layers of bureaucracy -- within a day of Mr. Kerry's statement, jumped in and announced that that was a great idea and we're all for it, in ending a stand-off they've been doing everything publicly to cause problems for the U.S.

I don't remotely think that Syria -- a country who has been denying that it has even had a chemical weapons program -- just hours later suddenly acknowledged that, well, yes, we actually do have a chemical weapons program after all.  And not only that, we will get rid of it.  All you have to do is ask!

And I don't even remotely think that that question from the journalist came purely by chance.

A few weeks ago, President Obama met with Vladimir Putin.  And it is impossible for me to imagine that they didn't talk about Syria.  In fact, Mr. Obama acknowledged in speech on Tuesday that they did.  And I am almost quite sure that they had a discussion that figured out a polite, low-key, non-aggressive way to handle a diplomatic resolution to the Syria problem without forcing anyone to lose face.  Russia would talk it over with Syria first and when they forced their ally to accept, then the U.S. would tell some journalist what a good question would be to ask John Kerry at his press conference.  And the Secretary of State would make an off-handed quip about what would resolve the situation.  And Russia would immediately jump in and say, "That's a great idea!"  And Syria would follow on their heels and agree, "You betcha!"

That makes sense to me.

Mister Magoo stumbling off a cliff into the loving arms of Russia and Syria, catching him before he falls, does not.

"Oh, Magoo, you've done it again...!"
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    Robert J. Elisberg is a political commentator, screenwriter, novelist, tech writer and also some other things that I just tend to keep forgetting. 

    Elisberg is a two-time recipient of the Lucille Ball Award for comedy screenwriting. He's written for film, TV, the stage, and two best-selling novels, is a regular columnist for the Writers Guild of America and was for
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