US, allies not after peace in Syria from beginning: Analyst

Press TV has interviewed Kevin Barrett, editor of Veterans Today in Madison, to discuss the remarks made by US Secretary of State John Kerry, urging the Syrian government and opposition to seize the opportunity presented by the peace talks to achieve a ceasefire in Syria, insisting that there is “no military solution” to the conflict.

The following is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: What do you make of Kerry’s comments that basically it is only political solution that will pave the way out of this situation in Syria?

Barrett: Well of course John Kerry is right but the tragic irony here is that if he had taken this line two or three years ago we would not be in the mess that we are in today. This same deal was totally on the table from President Assad, from Iran, from Russia, well that side was ready to accept this basic structure years ago, in fact really from the very beginning, that is a negotiated political settlement that gives space to all of the political currents in Syria whether with a ceasefire and this is the obvious solution.

Why it has not happened until now, well it is because John Kerry and his friends did not want it to happen and it is only now the facts on the ground with the very successful Russian actions and other advances being made by the Syrian government that have led to the current push for a political settlement from the Americans and Europeans.

So I guess the lesson from this is that in the future maybe we should try to make peace right away rather than destroying a country and then finally deciding to make the peace that you could have had right at the beginning.

Press TV: Well what about that, what you have just said, making peace right away? Do you think that that was part of the agenda to begin with not to make peace right away but to cause as much havoc and misery inside of Syria?

Barrett: Unfortunately that would appear to be the case because these intransigent Saudi-backed groups including Daesh which is backed by Saudi Arabia has been covertly established and backed by the US and the West and Israel where of course Daesh fighters are treated lavishly in Israeli hospitals, lavished honors, Netanyahu goes to visit them. This situation happened because the neoconservative faction in the West wanted to destroy Syria for Israel’s geostrategic benefit and that is where we got these intransigent demands ‘Assad must go, Assad must go’, this whipping up of hysteria that has led to the catastrophic civil war that we have today.

All of this was planned by the Zionists in the same way that they planned the destruction of Iraq. They knew that Iraq was not going to welcome an American invasion with flowers and candy and yet they intentionally went about the process of creating the conditions for the absolute and total destruction of Iraq that was the Israeli plan from the beginning. That is why [the blow for] World Trade Center on September 11th was to set in motion these series of transformative events in the Middle East to essentially destroy all the countries on their borders in accordance with the Oded Yinon Plan.

I am not sure that all of the factions in United States are really on board with that. The realist faction for which Kerry works I think has had a number of reservations about it and I hope that the realist faction will take back power in the United States in a decisive way in the future, arrest these neoconservative war criminals who have destroyed whole countries on behalf of the genocidal Zionist entity who launched the attack on America on September 11, 2001. These people all need to be tried for war crimes and I guess the new position that we are hearing from Kerry is a very, very small step in that direction.

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