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Somehow, it has not sunk into the general consciousness of US public opinion that the Obama administration has supported or is supporting directly or indirectly, overtly or covertly, the forces of Al Qaeda and the Islamic State in Syria (ISIL, ISIS or Daesh) in order to overthrow the government of President Bashar al Assad in Damascus. This should not be surprising because most Americans do not believe that the US government could be on the wrong side of any conflict…
On more than one occasion, U.S. President Barack Obama overrode agreements that his Secretary of State John Kerry had reached with Russia. Unlike Obama’s consistent support of his prior Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton’s, initiatives (such as her backing of the coup that on 28 June 2009 had overthrown the progressive democratically elected President of Honduras and replaced him with a fascist regime), Secretary of State Kerry has repeatedly suffered humiliations from his boss’s (Obama’s) reversals of agreements that Kerry had reached with Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov…
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry attended a meeting in Lausanne on October 15 to discuss further steps to find a peaceful solution to the Syrian crisis. Foreign ministers from seven key regional states – Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar, Jordan and Egypt, as Staffan de Mistura, the UN envoy for Syria, – also took part in the talks to stop the violence in Syria. The next day, US State Secretary john Kerry continued discussions with the UK, France and Germany in London.
The United States and Russia are working in lockstep against the Islamic State group and al-Qaida's affiliate in Syria in an ambitious push to end the Syria's devastating war. They reached a breakthrough deal on September 10 to put Syria's peace process back on track. Coincidence or not, but the deal came hours after Russia-supported Syrian military forces re-established their siege of the rebel-held sections of Aleppo, the Syria’s second largest city…
