aawsat.com, Amir Taheri :

Hearing diplomats and policymakers talking about Syria, one is bound to quickly come across a cliché: There is no military solution! But what if the opposite were true in the sense that the five-year plus “problem” couldn’t be solved except through military action?

It is interesting that all those who talk of “no military solution” are doing nothing but taking military action in Syria which, in practice, means dropping bombs from the air and killing vast numbers of Syrians. Just days after US Secretary of State John Kerry came out with the “no military solution” cliché, the Pentagon unveiled a new plan for intensified bombings in Syria.

Kerry’s Iranian “buddy” Muhammad Javad Zarif, playing the role of Foreign Minister, repeated the mantra while touring Cuba just a day before his masters in Tehran granted “base facilities” to Russia from which to intensify bombing Syria and kill even more Syrians.

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