Syria: What's the Arab League's next move?

The U.N. is not going to do anything concrete in Syria. Nobody want's a repeat of the Libya experience, even though it was successful, it took too long, was too expensive, suffered severe mission-creep, and everybody knows Syria is a much tougher nut than Libya.

The U.S. is not going to do anything concrete in Syria. The U.S. is broke, and nobody wants to spend money on another war. The U.S. knows that doing anything in Syria would just make the U.S. a target of criticism and terrorist attacks from muslims. The U.S. also knows there probably is no good outcome for the Syria situation, so why get involved?

The Arab League cannot do anything concrete in Syria. Assad's forces are too powerful, and he will never relent, so regime change is really the only option to stopping the violence, and the Arab League will never knowingly endorse regime change.

The only country that can do anything about Syria is Turkey. Turkey is big enough and strong enough and close enough to liquidate Assad's armed forces and push him out of power. This is the only way the violence will stop. But will Turkey get involved? Do they want to? Probably not. Only if the local situation causes them so much chaos along the border will they then be forced to act. Without Turkey, both sides in Syria will keep bashing away at each other, Assad aided by Iran and Russia, and the opposition aided by Iraqi militants and Saudi Arabia. They might eventually get exhausted and agree to some sort of truce and peacekeeping agreement, but that would probably take years.

I remember what Beirut looked like in 1975. Syria is probably going to end up the same way.

The Arab League? All Kufiyas and no oil wells!

Their next move is a beeline to the nearest Chinese restaurant...all this inaction makes you hungry.

Half of opposition is quiet (probably waiting for elections) while other half demand regime change and refuse to talk. Since they also shoot, they got shot back. And somehow I do not think Gulf Kingdoms really want liberal democracy in Syria or anywhere near own borders.

"Agree to an Arab-UN peacekeeping mission to restore stability to Syria," or stand back while Arab states "work with a coalition of the willing" to end the bloodshed.

How are those two statements different from eachother?

and why has russia left open the option of us sending arms ???---they sell more weapons to counter our weapons ---they make blood money.

russia has left open the option of us sending covert arms ---i suggest we do it.

arab league- what is that!this organisation should be dismantled They do not represent people nor goverments!they did not solve iSraeli Palesinian conflict since 1948!very little of promisse they can solve anything else! bunch of couchoraches milling around table!america wake up-shoes 49 will solve the problem!

How do Arabs work through these problems? How can they possible act against Syria? The only solution in the past was to get a strong man in power who would control the population and the government with strong handed rule.

The Arab League will ask Obama for a few hundred million like he is giving $800,000,000 to the Islamists he supported in the Arab Spring! Too little money for schools but plenty for our enemies! Obama is a traitor and should be executed for his crimes.

Thank you Arab league, showing what a bad mistake we made for ever falling for a UN. How we let Truman ever sell us on this bunch of incompetent losers remains the biggest mystery in a litany of bad democrat diplomacy. When the Arab league shows more moral rectitude than you…