Kerry: Assad, backed by Russia, responsible for massacre in Aleppo
Putin lovers in Trumpland and the Republican Party should take note.
…Secretary of State John Kerry accused Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government of carrying out “nothing short of a massacre” in Aleppo, where thousands on Thursday were evacuated under a ceasefire deal from the last rebel enclave in a city besieged by fighting for years.
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Kerry vigorously defended U.S. diplomatic efforts to end the war – all of which have been futile – and in which Assad, backed by Russia, Iran and Shi’ite militias, has gained the upper hand in the latest turn of the nearly six-year-old conflict.
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D.B. Hirsch is a political activist, news junkie, and retired ad copy writer and spin doctor. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.