Germany has called for a United Nations Security Council meeting to discuss the situation in Syria. Although no more is in the offing than a tough condemning resolution, China and Russia has already threatened to veto it.
Let us note that:
1. The crackdown on Syrian opposition has been going for several months already, and more than a thousand people have been killed. Yet, the ambassadors of all major Western countries are still not recalled from Damascus, and President Obama only now, after the massacre of 80 people in Hama, realized “the true character of the Syrian regime.”
2. The Muslim Brotherhood, on the other hand, has not remained silent: "Syria is witnessing a war of sectarian cleansing. The regime has linked its open annihilation with the crescent of Ramadan. It is a war on the identity and beliefs of the Syrian nation ... on Arab Muslim Syria."
Conclusion? In Syria the West has lost both moral ground and political influence in the "Arab Street". The Muslim Brotherhood gained.
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