Moscow Road
Hopefully, the US Secretary of state, John Kerry yesterday’s statement that the US and Russia’s interests regarding the settlement in Syria coincide would be a u-turn in the US long standing support to armed terrorists and groups on the ground. Most hopeful for is that the US would issue orders to its proxies and ewes as to immediately refrain from their obstructionist and destructive measures against the majority of the Syrians.
Mr. Kerry’s visit to Russia and his talks with President Vladimir Putin and his counterpart Sergei Lavrov came at a critical timing amid much debated speculations about the legitimate response of the Syrians to the recent coward Israeli attacks. The majority of the Syrians do hope that the talks with the Russian officials, who do comprehend the facts and reality on the ground, did illuminate on the Moscow Road the visiting US Secretary, whose country has been, unfortunately, involved in the shedding of the Syrians’ blood in a way or another!
It is a good omen that finally the US has started to admit and to be interested in stability in the region, fighting terrorism, as well as in dialogue among the Syrians as to politically end the crisis. Thanks to the steadfast Syrians, Army, and Russian brothers and friends worldwide.
Further, the Russian-US talks-preceding the forthcoming Putin-Obama Summit, underscored, according to Minister Lavrov, the need to preserve the safety of Syria and its territorial integrity and the need to convince representatives of the government and the opposition to hold negotiations, given the fact that the Syrian Government agreed to adopt the Geneva statement and formed a committee with full authority to materialize it, while the opposition didn’t even announce until now who will participate in negotiations on its behalf to implement the statement.
It is a positive gesture that Secretary Kerry underlined the need for exerted efforts to combat terrorism, which the Syrian Government has been exposed to for more than two years. Mr. Kerry, Syria, the peace-loving country, which you have earlier visited several times, is in need for some US carrots, and never more for unjustified sticks bias, unilateralism and sanctions. Syria, according to a statement in 2002 by US State Department official, Richard W. Erdman, the chief State Department specialist for Syria, “saved American lives,” in the aftermath of September 11 terrorist attacks! Hopefully, Mr. Secretary of State, that you will work as to change your predecessor’s statements before the 2-day US House of Appropriations Committee on April 24-25, 2009: ”let`s remember here… the people we are fighting today we funded them twenty years ago…and great, let them come from Saudi Arabia and other countries, importing their Wahabi brand of Islam.”
Unfortunately, your remote-controlled ewes and new Ottomans have turned almost all of the Middle East into a bloodbath minefield, where to every terrorist and extremist is sent for jihad! The majority does live in fear! Sir, it is unbearable nightmare once the people of this sacred region are slaughtered like sheep at the hands of the most notorious terrorists, among whom many were set free from prisons in return for jihad!
Dr. Mohammad Abdo Al-Ibrahim