Following talks with his Russian counterpart, Secretary of State John Kerry claimed the two nations have planned “concrete steps” to be taken in Syria, with an eye toward ending the civil war and fighting against both ISIS and al-Qaeda’s Nusra Front.
Kerry gave no indication what that would entail, but followed it up by calling on Russia to use its influence to force the Syrian government to stop all attacks on rebel factions. In recent weeks, virtually all of that fighting has been against Nusra Front.
That must inevitably raise questions about what the US has in mind, since the US has made a big deal about this new deal with Russia being about growing concerns about Nusra, and yet they followed it immediately up with another effort to get the heat off Nusra.
Other nations involved in Syria, particularly those in Europe, have expressed annoyance that the US and Russia have attempted to make so much of the discussion on the war a bilateral issue, one from which the rest of the world, and indeed all the Syrian factions, are excluded, while the US and Russian officials yammer on endlessly without any sign of progress.
At this time, Kerry is pretty much just Al-Qaida’s Diplomat. His main and constant goal is to get nations to stop bombing Al-Qaida.
And to think, we gave up all our rights and liberties because we were told that fighting Al-Qaida was oh so important.
From TASS …. ” “But we will not conceal that we can and must use out influence on
various Syrian parties to have them implement the key requirement – to
sit down at the negotiating table and try to reach an agreement on
political reforms on the basis of mutual consent.” “This is the key to
success and we hope such process ultimately starts and the solution to
the Syrian problem, like to any other problem in our turbulent world,
relies on democratic principles, the principles of the United Nations
Charter which declares sovereignty of its nations and their right to
decide their future through free elections,” Lavrov said.” http://tass.ru/en/world/889311
The key to understanding is to realize that its been the US (and Saudi) backed ‘moderate’ groups that have refused to talk.
I hope these brave American and Russian masons have some weapons