Syria: The REAL Story

Good discussion on Cross Talk (RTTV)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALD6aT-iYV4
and this from the Corbett Report
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM3VAmJTCJo
Stephen Cohen speaks well to these mideast issues in context with Russia relations (or lack thereof).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pUj3Vqptx8
And Jack Matlock is worth a listen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmP513n78YE
and this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsT-O5qQaWY

We don't know what Trump might do, and we do know that Hillary is somewhat bent on initiating conflict with Russia concerning Syria. I wish Stephen J. Cohen was running for POTUS, with Jack Matlock as his VP running mate. Talk about a "between a rock and a hard place" situation.

Good video,,,,Putin has said exactly the same thing in interviews with rooms full of journalists, but it never gets broadcast here......

Here's another documentary to view on the subject
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FislQwhKuhg

and something on the climate change angle (Syria, with all it's complex issues, may be a small window into the near future concerning more stressed and failed states in relation to climate change pressures). The Pentagon is on record for saying the #1 threat to national and global security is climate change. Regardless of what is actually causing climate change, the effects and resulting consequences are very likely here to stay for quite some time.
https://news.vice.com/article/the-drought-that-preceded-syrias-civil-war...
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/is-a-lack-of-water-to-blame-for...
http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/WCAS-D-13-00059.1
http://religioner.no/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/religioner.no_wcas-d-13-...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/29/climate-change-syr...
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ominous-story-of-syria-climate...