US and Russia present united front over Syria after attack in Nice

[newthinking]

Source: The Guardian


The US and Russia have united to condemn the Nice attack and to identify the war in Syria as the world’s principal “incubator” for terrorism as they discuss tightening coordination to handle the five-year crisis.

The US secretary of state, John Kerry, and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, began a meeting in Moscow with a moment of silence for the victims of the atrocity, with Kerry expressing “absolute abhorrence for the incredible carnage”.

Kerry said: “The problem is that you and I and other foreign ministers and leaders are now doing this almost on a weekly basis, and nowhere is there a greater hotbed or incubator for these terrorists than in Syria.

“People all over the world are looking to us ... to find a faster and more tangible way of them feeling that everything that is possible is being done to end this terrorist scourge and to unite the world in the most comprehensive efforts possible to fight back against their nihilistic and depraved approach to life and death.”


Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/15/us-and-russia-present-united-front-over-syria-after-attack-in-nice

[maxsolomon]

1. At this point, ISIL is a more urgent problem than Assad.

Raqqa, their Syrian base of operations, needs to be quarantined or taken. Mosul needs to be quarantined or taken.

It won't stop all attacks, of course, and innocents will die. French innocents died yesterday. 300 Shiite innocents died in Baghdad on 7/3.

[IamTheNoodle]

2. I'll take a ruthless Assad if he can keep these extremists in check.

Democracy simply does not work when a large swath of the population buys into a 6 century way of life.

[KG]

3. more bombs and more bullets, coz it's worked so well in the past....

[maxsolomon]

5. wil a retreat into isolation stop the terror?

what tactics would you implement immediately?

[PersonNumber503602]

6. So the US, Europe, and Russia should back out and just let the chips fall as they may?

Think the Syria and Iraqi governments (and all the other nations in the region) would be able to handle the ISIS threat on their own?

[David__77]

4. I think a Syrian government victory would be preferable to its defeat.

I also think an Iraqi government victory would be preferable to its defeat.