Pepe Escobar, Asia Times, July 10, 2012 US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is running out of rhetorical ammunition in the US' Holy War against Syria. Perhaps it's the strain of launching a NATO war bypassing the UN Security Council. Perhaps it's the strain of being eaten for breakfast routinely by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

 Hillary has just called on "Western powers" and their Arab stooges - the NATOGCC compound that passes for the "international community" - to "make it clear that Russia and China will pay a price because they are holding up progress" regarding weaponized regime change in Syria. "If you block our new war, there will be payback". ... There