It's my guess that the U.S. ambassador to Syria has his resume' floating out there at the moment as last Thursday he was pelted with rotten eggs while going to visit one of the rebel leaders in Syria and now, the talking piece of the Assad regime has warned him to fall in line or he will see more of the same.
From the report at Breitbart:
U.S. Ambassador Robert Ford should stop meddling in Syrian affairs if he wants to avoid more 'rotten eggs' attacks in the future, a state-run Syrian newspaper warned on Sunday.
The Al Baath newspaper, a mouthpiece of the Syrian regime, accused Ford of supporting armed anti-government groups in Syria and said his meddling will not be tolerated.
Supporters of President Bashar Assad on Thursday pelted Ford—an outspoken critic of the Syrian regime's brutal crackdown on the country's six-month-old uprising—with eggs as he visited a prominent Syrian opposition figure in Damascus. He was trapped in the office for about three hours by the hostile pro-government protesters outside until Syrian security forces arrived to escort him out.
"If you want to avoid rotten eggs, you should advise your country to stop its blatant interference in Syrian affairs and its feverish efforts to seek sanctions against Syria from the U.N. Security Council," the newspaper said.
Don't you find it a bit ridiculous that the Obama administration has put this ambassador in this type of position? I mean, either go all out in opposition to the leadership of Bashir Assad and pull this ambassador out of the country or just have him sit inside for the next 3 months and wait it all out.
Here's the video of the attack last week on Ambassador Robert Ford:
I mean, seriously, what are the chances that the next time this ambassador travels out into Syria those "rotten eggs" are going to be live rounds from one of the Syrian troops or Assad sympathizers? And isn't this just another example of the humiliation of America that Barack Hussein Obama has brought upon our country? An American ambassador being pummeled with rotten eggs? There should have been 20 U.S. Marines there to make sure the egg throwers never threw anything, ever again.
Syria warns US ambassador against meddling
BEIRUT (AP) - U.S. Ambassador Robert Ford should stop meddling in Syrian affairs if he wants to avoid more 'rotten eggs' attacks in the future, a state-run Syrian newspaper warned on Sunday.
The Al Baath newspaper, a mouthpiece of the Syrian regime, accused Ford of supporting armed anti-government groups in Syria and said his meddling will not be tolerated.
Supporters of President Bashar Assad on Thursday pelted Ford—an outspoken critic of the Syrian regime's brutal crackdown on the country's six-month-old uprising—with eggs as he visited a prominent Syrian opposition figure in Damascus. He was trapped in the office for about three hours by the hostile pro-government protesters outside until Syrian security forces arrived to escort him out.
"If you want to avoid rotten eggs, you should advise your country to stop its blatant interference in Syrian affairs and its feverish efforts to seek sanctions against Syria from the U.N. Security Council," the newspaper said.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and the White House said the assault was part of a campaign to intimidate diplomats looking into the Assad's government's brutal repression of pro-reform demonstrators. The Obama administration summoned Syria's ambassador in Washington to hear formal U.S. condemnation of the assault.
In comments posted on the embassy's Facebook page, Ford said Thursday's attack was not limited to eggs and tomatoes.
"Protesters threw concrete blocks at the windows and hit the cars with iron bars. One person jumped on the hood of the car, tried to kick in the windshield and then jumped on the roof," Ford wrote.
"Is that peaceful? I'd call it intolerant if not worse."
Al Baath newspaper said Ford should expect further "unpleasant treatment" as long as his country meddles in Syrian affairs.
"As long as the (U.S.) ambassador believes that diplomacy is the art of instigation against national regimes, he should anticipate unpleasant treatment," it said.
Ford has angered the Syrian regime in past months by visiting a couple of the protest centers outside of Damascus in a show of solidarity with the anti-government uprising. The latest incident could further raise tensions between Washington and Damascus, which has accused the United States of helping incite violence in Syria. In August, Obama demanded Assad resign, saying he had lost his legitimacy as a ruler.
Tension between the West and Syria—Iran's closest Arab ally—has been rising for months.
Washington and the European Union have imposed sanctions on some Syrian officials, including Assad, because of his crackdown that has left some 2,700 people dead, according to the United Nations.
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