"The US, EU & regional partners will not provide int'l assistance to any area under the control of the Assad regime." US will discourage int'l econ engagement with Syria; once Assad is gone, US will support normalization of relations with Syria. Clear message to China.
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Specific shoutout to Syrian Democratic Forces, BUT: battlefield "victories do not solve local governance challenges" on the ground. Local authorities must be truly representative, have int'l support, & cannot threaten any neighboring states. These voices must be rep'd in Geneva.
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(This is the message to Turkey, explicitly so)
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Tillerson implicitly equates non-Syrian Kurdish presence (PKK) & Iranian presence as both illegitimate.
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The HUGE policy piece missing from this speech is US refugee policy -- not a word about US humanitarian assistance, about support for host countries, or about our own horrifically inhumane refugee & immigration policy barring Syrians.
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And I have to note that while a lot of what Tillerson discussed today is not his portfolio (it's Mattis's), refugees and migration are very much within his purview. Glaring omission & admission of his lack of any influence on a key topic.
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Now Sec Rice is giving Tillerson an opportunity to mitigate his destruction of the morale of his workforce by giving a major shoutout to his employees, their skill, professionalism, & the "open debate" over the issues.
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Tillerson says he doesn't have a Twitter account; his staff prints the president's tweets out and hands them to Tillerson. He likes it this way, because he can already see others' reax & work to address it.
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Rice notes that internal governance DOES matter to the US, as Tillerson acknowledged in Assad's case. Asks him to reevaluate his view of values in foreign policy.
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Tillerson speaks of American values (I guess he still hasn't read the memo on universal human rights) as unchanging & always with us. But how do we operationalize them? Advocating for human rights when people are being killed every day "doesn't resonate very well" he says. O.M.G.
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights , Article 3: "Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.". So, huh?
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