As Peter Eavis of The New York Times noted on DealBook, the opposition comment letters substitute dire theoretical predictions for specific real-life examples.
Perhaps sensing an opening, Iain Duncan Smith, the new leader of the Conservative opposition, commented last week, "Even those who have supported military action from the outset are beginning to ask what our real objectives are and whether we are going about securing them in the right way".
Mr. Brahimi, who will replace the resigning Kofi Annan at the end of the month, apparently offended both the Syrian government and opposition in comments to the European press on Monday.
This was not the first time that La Comay has faced opposition over comments".This is not a new problem," said Pedro Julio Serrano, a spokesman for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force who described La Comay and her show as "sexist, misogynist, racist, homophobic and xenophobic".
Mr. Lukashevich was seeking to calm speculation prompted on Thursday, when Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov told the Public Chamber, a Kremlin advisory group, that it was "impossible to rule out a victory of the Syrian opposition," in comments that were immediately made public by Russian wire services.
Mu Sochua, Cambodia's leading in-country opposition figure, commented in her blog that she hoped the issue would be on the agenda for an upcoming meeting of international donors and the Cambodian government.
The only logical explanation was that Fidesz found the ordinary parliamentary procedure too constraining because it required laws to be vetted by parliamentary committees, to be offered to the opposition for comment, to go through a process of consultation with interested groups and to go through multiple readings with full time for debate.
— President Obama on Friday accused some insurance companies of trying to undermine his plans for overhauling health care by "funding in opposition," a comment that could inflame tensions at a time when Mr. Obama is hoping to keep insurers at the negotiating table.
Using Twitter, they expressed their opposition to her comments in less than an hour.
The opposition leader echoed comments by senior shadow minister Anthony Albanese labelling Mr Turnbull's actions "pathetic".
