Carlsbad, CA
September 19, 2015

Putin and Obama Move Towards
Peace In Syria

by Rich Scheck

I love being wrong about predicting bad news!

As a person who tends toward the literal, I usually respond
to public pronouncements as if they were accurate reflections
of people’s real intentions rather than being merely posturing to
secure their bargaining position or to mislead the electorate.

With the US and NATO continually ranting against Russia,
Syria and Iran, it has been easy for me to think we were
edging ever closer to the abyss of more war.

But now come Lavrov and Kerry in a long overdue public
embrace of sanity for a joint effort to constrain ISIS as a
worthy expression of the national interests of both countries.

After a year of failure by the US in its supposed attempt to destroy ISIS, Putin is on the verge of proposing to the UN General Assembly a worldwide coalition against ISIS.

A preview of his forthcoming address indicates he is poised to commit the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) of former Soviet Republics to stopping ISIS, with or without the participation of the West!

With Germany, France and other US allies now abandoning
our hawkish attempt to achieve regime change and the ouster
of Assad, the Neocons may again be left with egg on their face.

Devastation in Syria — AFP Photo/Pablo Tosco (Getty Images)

If Obama is able to pull off another deal to stop the bleeding
in Syria in a manner similar to the P5 +1 deal to constrain
Iran’s nuclear program, he will go into the last year of his
second term riding high on these foreign policy successes.

For a “stupid, weak negotiating” team, Obama’s crew are
on the verge of stopping the slide towards WWIII that has
seemed increasingly likely based on the stormy rhetoric
of many world leaders, especially Republican presidential
candidates, Hillary Clinton and others.

These people should know better based on our recent
history in Libya, Iraq, Yemen and elsewhere. Achieving
American Greatness by imposing Pax Americana on a
world highly resistant to us being their global policeman
sounds good during a political campaign but has proven
to be untenable as a proper foreign policy.

Those who have bought into the endless drone of demonizing
Putin should listen carefully to the first hour of Webster Tarpley’s
broadcast of September 19th to learn that, rather than being an
evil dictator, the Russian leader is in fact acting as a benefactor
to the US as he counters and elevates our incompetent officials.
Kerry Finally Drops Absurd Demand for Immediate Ouster of
Syrian President Assad

There is finally reason for hope as a rational plan to deal with
international crises consistent with the UN Charter and the rule
of law has the potential to emerge out of the quagmire of our
unending wars.

Rather than a collision of the great powers over Syria, we
are looking at the real possibility of cooperation to defuse the
movement towards more chaos. We can begin the restoration of
planetary peace and the neconomic development we desperately
need 15 years into the 21st century.

That is also the goal of Pope Francis who is focusing on
Climate Change and Sustainable to promote an alternative
agenda to the prospect of more war that currently dominates
the Earth.

The reporting of Robert Parry is typical of the excellent coverage
of the Syria issue at www.informationclearinghouse.info. The two
articles below provide an in depth summary of the main developments.

Can Putin maneuver Obama towards peace? The war-mongering
profiteers of our military-industrial complex who like to dictate policy
to Congress and let our country participate in much carnage will do
all they can to stop him.

We are a few days away from further insight into this drama. I pray
we opt for cooperation and peace instead of confrontation and war.

—
Who’s to Blame for Syria Mess? Putin!

Obama’s Fateful Syrian Choice by Robert Parry