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France, United Kingdom and America seeking to regain the initiative

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/10312315/Syria-West-vows-to-increase-backing-for-rebels.html Syria: West vows to increase backing for rebels  Laurent Fabius John Kerry and William Hague The determination of France, the United States and Great Britain to wage war against the Syrian people and to support the insurgency of fighters from Chechnya, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Israel and even the al- Qaeda linked groups, is as astounding in its hypocrisy as it is in its cynicism. Since this civil war started around two years ago,"the west" led initially be Great Britain and now joined by the French and the Americans, have been fervently seeking excuses to become involved in the conflict and to bring about, by any means, regime change in Damascus. The plans were thrown into some confusion when the House of Commons in the United Kingdom, voted against a government resolution authorising the use of force, closely followed by President Obama refe...

More frothy rhetoric than practical substance

  http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/09/14/us-and-russia-agree-deal-_n_3925763.html?utm_hp_ref=uk#comments   US And Russia Agree Deal Over Syria's Chemical Weapons  John Kerry Sergey Lavrov    The Syrians were not in Geneva in 2013, in much the same way as the Czechs were not in Munich in 1938. The resultant “agreement” however has the same sort of “peace in our time” ring about it as did the sheet of paper waved in the air at Heston Aerodrome all those years ago. John Kerry and Sergey Lavrov stood behind their respective l ecterns as Kerry presented the 6 point agreement, (after seemingly to forget that number six followed number five), outlining how Syria should produce a list of their chemical weapons within a week, how inspection should start by mid November and how the weapons must be handed over by June next year. At the end of Kerry's presentation, Lavrov chipped in with a vague reference as to how they “ mi...