{"id":22844,"date":"2015-09-19T19:10:08","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T23:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=22844"},"modified":"2015-09-19T21:46:17","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T01:46:17","slug":"will-putin-and-obama-negotiate-a-durable-peace-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=22844","title":{"rendered":"Will Putin and Obama negotiate a durable peace in Syria?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carlsbad, CA<br \/>\nSeptember 19, 2015<\/p>\n<h1>Putin and Obama Move\u00a0Towards<br \/>\nPeace In Syria<!--more--><\/h1>\n<p>by Rich Scheck<\/p>\n<p>I love being wrong about predicting bad news!<\/p>\n<p>As a person who tends toward the literal, I usually respond<br \/>\nto public pronouncements as if they were accurate reflections<br \/>\nof people&#8217;s real intentions rather than being merely posturing to<br \/>\nsecure their bargaining position or to mislead the electorate.<\/p>\n<p>With the US and NATO continually ranting against Russia,<br \/>\nSyria and Iran, it has been easy for me to think we were<br \/>\nedging ever closer to the abyss of more war.<\/p>\n<p>But now come Lavrov and Kerry in a long overdue public<br \/>\nembrace of sanity for a joint effort to constrain ISIS as a<br \/>\nworthy expression of the national interests of both countries.<\/p>\n<p>After a year of failure by the US in its supposed attempt to\u00a0destroy ISIS, Putin is on the verge of proposing to the UN\u00a0General Assembly a worldwide coalition against ISIS.<\/p>\n<p>A preview of his forthcoming address indicates he is poised\u00a0to commit the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO)\u00a0of former Soviet Republics to stopping ISIS, with or without the\u00a0participation of the West!<\/p>\n<p>With Germany, France and other US allies now abandoning<br \/>\nour hawkish attempt to achieve regime change and the ouster<br \/>\nof Assad, the Neocons may again be left with egg on their face.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_22851\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/syria-rubble.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22851\" class=\"wp-image-22851 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/syria-rubble-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"A Syrian man reacts while standing on the rubble of his house while others look for survivors and bodies in the Tariq al-Bab district of the northern city of Aleppo on February 23, 2013. Three surface-to-surface missiles fired by Syrian regime forces in Aleppo's Tariq al-Bab district have left 58 people dead, among them 36 children, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on February 24. AFP PHOTO\/PABLO TOSCO (Photo credit should read Pablo Tosco\/AFP\/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/syria-rubble-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/syria-rubble-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22851\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Devastation in Syria &#8212; AFP Photo\/Pablo Tosco (Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If Obama is able to pull off another deal to stop the bleeding<br \/>\nin Syria in a manner similar to the P5 +1 deal to constrain<br \/>\nIran&#8217;s nuclear program, he will go into the last year of his<br \/>\nsecond term riding high on these foreign policy successes.<\/p>\n<p>For a &#8220;stupid, weak negotiating&#8221; team, Obama&#8217;s crew are<br \/>\non the verge of stopping the slide towards WWIII that has<br \/>\nseemed increasingly likely based on the stormy rhetoric<br \/>\nof many world leaders, especially Republican presidential<br \/>\ncandidates, Hillary Clinton and others.<\/p>\n<p>These people should know better based on our recent<br \/>\nhistory in Libya, Iraq, Yemen and elsewhere. Achieving<br \/>\nAmerican Greatness by imposing Pax Americana on a<br \/>\nworld highly resistant to us being their global policeman<br \/>\nsounds good during a political campaign but has proven<br \/>\nto be untenable as a proper foreign policy.<\/p>\n<p>Those who have bought into the endless drone of demonizing<br \/>\nPutin should listen carefully to the first hour of Webster Tarpley&#8217;s<br \/>\nbroadcast of September 19th to learn that, rather than being an<br \/>\nevil dictator, the Russian leader is in fact acting as a benefactor<br \/>\nto the US as he counters and elevates our incompetent officials.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/tarpley.net\/kerry-drops-absurd-demand-for-immediate-ouster-of-assad\/\">Kerry Finally Drops Absurd Demand for Immediate Ouster of <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/tarpley.net\/kerry-drops-absurd-demand-for-immediate-ouster-of-assad\/\">Syrian President Assad<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is finally reason for hope as a rational plan to deal with<br \/>\ninternational crises consistent with the UN Charter and the rule<br \/>\nof law has the potential to emerge out of the quagmire of our<br \/>\nunending wars.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than a collision of the great powers over Syria, we<br \/>\nare looking at the real possibility of cooperation to defuse the<br \/>\nmovement towards more chaos. We can begin the restoration of<br \/>\nplanetary peace and the neconomic development we desperately<br \/>\nneed 15 years into the 21st century.<\/p>\n<p>That is also the goal of Pope Francis who is focusing on<br \/>\nClimate Change and Sustainable to promote an alternative<br \/>\nagenda to the prospect of more war that currently dominates<br \/>\nthe Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The reporting of Robert Parry is typical of the excellent coverage<br \/>\nof the Syria issue at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/\">www.informationclearinghouse.info<\/a>. The two<br \/>\narticles below provide an in depth summary of the main developments.<\/p>\n<p>Can Putin maneuver Obama towards peace? The war-mongering<br \/>\nprofiteers of our military-industrial complex who like to dictate policy<br \/>\nto Congress and let our country participate in much carnage will do<br \/>\nall they can to stop him.<\/p>\n<p>We are a few days away from further insight into this drama. I pray<br \/>\nwe opt for cooperation and peace instead of confrontation and war.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article42864.htm\"><br \/>\nWho\u2019s to Blame for Syria Mess? Putin!<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article42896.htm\">Obama\u2019s Fateful Syrian Choice by Robert Parry<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlsbad, CA September 19, 2015 Putin and Obama Move\u00a0Towards Peace In Syria<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}