REUTERS: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused the United States on Friday of having double standards on Syria, saying it had blocked a U.N. Security Council statement condemning a car bomb attack in Damascus.
Washington denied it had blocked the statement and said it had only asked for balance. The disagreement was likely to sour the atmosphere before Lavrov meets newly appointed U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry next week in Berlin.
Lavrov told a news conference Washington had disappointed Moscow by blocking a statement condemning “terrorist attacks” near the Russian embassy in Damascus that killed more than 50 people and that Washington was threatening international unity in the “war on terror”… (more)
EDITOR: So long as most of the suffering is being experienced by the partisans, it is difficult to generate public opinion on the part of the ruling class to end the war. Of course, this is very sad. The ideal solution would be the exit of President Bashar al- Assad and the formation of coalition government. This would protect against extreme, anti-Western elements taking over the country. Apparently, this is the goal of the Obama administration.
