
“One of the reasons why Obama found war on Syria a hard sell at the St. Petersburg G20 summit is this recognition that a US attack on Syrian military installations will compound the current regional character of the Syrian war and convert it into a global war of epic proportions that can prolong the misery of Syrian people for years to come. I asked a recently remitted member of the US State Department’s Policy Planning Staff why Washington did nothing to stop its allies when they were arming and financing brutal killers in Syria. He responded with a shrug that ‘we have no leverage over Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey to change their behavior.'”
http://rt.com/op-edge/g20-us-syria-strike-556/
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