Het volgende Libië. Met een mandaat van de VN op zak een land omver gooien. 't Is toch wat.

en dan helpen met wederopbouwen - een maatregel tegen hoge jeugdwerkloosheid ("EU werkt aan plannen tegen jeugdwerkloosheid").

Een ezel stoot zich in 't gemeen niet tweemaal aan dezelfde steen...

Normaal gesproken hadden ze zich vandaag over iets anders gebogen, maar ja, die 16 kilo coke zijn onderschept.

@1 Gebeurd niet, Rusland zal dit in geen geval toestaan.

@5 Klopt. Hier een extract van het Russische standpunt. Geen tweede Lybie, dus:

"[Russia's Foreign Minister] said that foreign governments [the U.S., Turkey, etc.] were arming ‘militants and extremists’ in Syria."

The Foreign minister also gave an accurate description of U.S. foreign policy towards Iran:

"Mr. Lavrov offered a similarly grave message about the possibility of a military strike against Iran, which he said would be a “catastrophe.” He said sanctions now being proposed against Tehran were “intended to have a smothering effect on the Iranian economy and the Iranian population, probably in the hopes of provoking discontent.” (January 19, 2012).

Most ominously, the Russian Foreign Minister said that U.S. foreign policy in Syria and Iran could lead to a "very big war,” i.e., a war that becomes regional or even international in scope, as other powers intervene to uphold their interests in the region.

Russia has offered a way to avoid war in Syria and is pursuing it through the UN Security Council; it is the same path being pursued by the pro-U.S. government in Yemen: maintaining the current government in power until elections are called. Unfortunately, Yemen is an ally of the U.S. and Syria is not — the U.S. and its allies are blocking the same approach in Syria in order to pursue war.