I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a
lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
said Sunday that it is vital to coordinate all efforts, including those of the US and Russia, in the fight against the so-called 'Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
of Iraq and the Levant' (ISIL) takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed...
group.
"The critical thing is that all of the efforts need to be coordinated," Kerry told news hounds at a joint presser with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in New York.
Responding to a question about a new intelligence-sharing arrangement between Russia, Iraq, Syria and Iran, Lavrov said: "We coordinate the efforts against ISIL".
However,
facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable...
Kerry said that coordination between Washington and Moscow is yet undone. "This is not yet coordinated. We have concerns about how we're going to go forward, but that's precisely what we're meeting on to talk about now," he said.
His remarks come as US President Barack Obama
The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn’t. But she is a typical white person...
prepares to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...on Monday amid an uptick in Russian support for Syrian
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Light of the Alawites...
"This is the beginning of a genuine effort to see if there is a way to de-conflict, but also to find a way forward that will be effective in keeping a united, secular Syria that can be at peace and stable again without foreign troops present, and that's our hope," Kerry added.
A senior State Department official said that Kerry and Lavrov discussed a possible political transition in Syria, but pointed out that their conversation was preparatory for Monday's meeting between Putin and Obama.
"If the Russians are going to be more engaged in this theater, we have to de-conflict militarily. We also have to have a political way forward," the official said.
The US is leading a coalition of over 60 countries to allegedly combat ISIL in Syria and Iraq, while Russia has reportedly been deploying heavy weaponry to an airbase outside of the Syrian coastal city of Latakia for a possible offensive against the bully boy group.