Putting Out the Syrian Fire: Can Diplomacy Do What War Couldn’t?

(Before It's News)

By Jo Comerford and Mattea Kramer, TomDispatch

At the end of September, Connecticut Representative Jim Himes corralled 54 of his colleagues into calling on President Obama for the start of international negotiations aimed at ending the Syrian civil war—and Obama is reportedly listening.

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