{"id":10023,"date":"2013-09-05T11:54:05","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T11:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10023"},"modified":"2013-09-05T11:55:40","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T11:55:40","slug":"arabs-will-pay-for-full-syrian-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10023","title":{"rendered":"Arabs will pay for full Syrian invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kerry and Hagel, enjoying the moment<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Secretary of State John Kerry said at Wednesday\u2019s hearing that Arab counties have offered to pay for the entirety of unseating President Bashar al-Assad if the United States took the lead militarily.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith respect to Arab countries offering to bear costs and to assess, the answer is profoundly yes,\u201d Kerry said. \u201cThey have. That offer is on the table.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked by Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) about how much those countries would contribute, Kerry said they have offered to pay for all of a full invasion.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn fact, some of them have said that if the United States is prepared to go do the whole thing the way we\u2019ve done it previously in other places, they\u2019ll carry that cost,\u201d Kerry said. \u201cThat\u2019s how dedicated they are at this. That\u2019s not in the cards, and nobody\u2019s talking about it, but they\u2019re talking in serious ways about getting this done.<\/p>\n

A possible US military operation in Syria would not result in a war with Russia, Kerry said at a meeting of the foreign affairs committee of the US House of Representatives.<\/p>\n

\u201cForeign Minister [Sergei] Lavrov of Russia has made it clear – pretty much to paraphrase – Russia does not intend to fight a war over Syria,\u201d Kerry said at the meeting on Wednesday when asked whether there was a potential danger of a military conflict with Russia.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I\u2019ve had personal conversations with President [Vladimir] Putin and with the foreign minister that have indicated Syria doesn\u2019t rise to that level of potential conflict. Their ships are kind of staying out of the way. They are not threatening that. And I don\u2019t think that would be what would happen here,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the assessment of Russia\u2019s possible response would be presented to Congress at closed hearings. – Washington Post, RIA Novosti<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Secretary of State John Kerry said at Wednesday\u2019s hearing that Arab counties have offered to pay for the entirety of unseating President Bashar al-Assad if the United States took the lead militarily. \u201cWith respect to Arab countries offering to bear costs and to assess, the answer is profoundly yes,\u201d Kerry said. \u201cThey have. That offer … Continue reading “Arabs will pay for full Syrian invasion”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10,123],"tags":[5845,5847,66,5846,5799,198,5848],"class_list":["post-10023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","category-world","tag-arabs","tag-invasion","tag-russia","tag-secretary-of-state-john-kerry","tag-sergei-lavrov","tag-syria","tag-us-military-operation-in-syria"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/syriawar2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10026,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10023\/revisions\/10026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}