Instead of isolating Syria's Assad, the U.S. now wants dialogue

A Syrian journalist today tells U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to first sit with his chum Bashar al-Assad to test the water before asking the Syrian opposition to come to the table to negotiate a transition.

The US administration, during its second term, has turned to adopt a different position to the Syrian crisis, looking to achieve a political solution.

As we approach the ten year anniversary of the launching of George W. Bush’s war on Iraq, it is worth my pointing out that I concluded even before the war began that the main rationale then given for it, Iraq’s alleged nuclear weapons program, was a fiction.