'Military pressure' may be needed to oust Assad: Kerry

[jakeXT]

Riyadh (AFP) - Military pressure may be needed to oust Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, US Secretary of State John Kerry said in Saudi Arabia on Thursday.

"He's lost any semblance of legitimacy, but we have no higher priority than disrupting and defeating Daesh and other terror networks", he told reporters, using an Arabic acronym for the Islamic State group which has seized swathes of Syria and Iraq.

"Ultimately a combination of diplomacy and pressure will be needed to bring about a political transition. Military pressure particularly may be necessary given President Assad's reluctance to negotiate seriously."

http://news.yahoo.com/military-pressure-may-needed-oust-assad-kerry-135917056.html

[Smarmie Doofus]

1. I'm inclined to leave that up to Syrians to determine, John. n/t

[KoKo]

3. +1...but, sadly most of the voters are in Refugee Camps or Escaped to other places

from the Carnage there...

Should have worked for a Diplomatic Solution with Assad......and think of the lives that might have been saved....

[bemildred]

2. Or we could just bury him in bullshit. nt