Obama Talks Peace, Wages Endless Wars of Aggression
By Stephen Lendman
Global Research
September 18, 2015
Obama, John Kerry and other US officials rhetorically urge settling conflicts diplomatically in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Donbass, Palestine and elsewhere – while waging endless direct or proxy wars in multiple theaters with new ones in mind.
Syria is in the eye of the storm. In an interview with six Russian media outlets, Bashar al-Assad said defeating ISIS and other takfiri terrorism is the only way to end ongoing conflict and the human flood it creates.
As long as Washington, other Western countries and regional ones support terrorists, endless wars will continue. Syrians want resolution “through dialogue and political action,” he explained. They want peace, stability and national sovereignty respected. They deplore intervention by foreign powers.
Washington bears full responsibility for creating ISIS. Russian UN envoy Vitaly Churkin traced its origin from Bush’s Iraq war, saying it “became active when (it) began storming Baghdad…So, the Islamic State ripened in Iraq during the US occupation. (America) should be blamed for” its rise and proliferation.
It’s time to “creat(e) an international coalition to fight ISIS, which is what President Putin is proposing.”
“Russia…has proposed (forming) a wide coalition to fight extremists without any delay. It should unite everyone” against a common enemy, Putin stressed.
Churkin called Washington’s so-called coalition “flawed” – lacking Security Council authorization, a strategy for endless war, not peace and stability.
“All Russia’s actions in Syria are coordinated with the Syrian government and stay within the norms of international law,” Churkin stressed.
John Kerry claiming Russian involvement in Syria “exacerbate(s) and extend(s) the conflict, and undermine(s)…fighting extremism” is polar opposite truth. It’s vital to help contain and defeat US-sponsored terrorism in Syria and elsewhere – regionally and beyond.
State Department spokesman Admiral John Kirby ludicrously blaming Assad for ISIS in Syria ignores Washington’s full responsibility. Blaming victims is longstanding US policy.
Russia’s upper house Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko forthrightly explained “the real culprits behind the drama that people of the Middle East and North Africa are living through today.”
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