© www.globalresearch.comUS conviction and morality, piled high and deep.
"The moral rationale for taking steps to end the deaths and suffering in Syria, after five years of brutal war, is evident and unquestionable," the
New York Times quoted the document as saying. "The status quo in Syria will continue to present
increasingly dire, if not disastrous, humanitarian, diplomatic and terrorism-related challenges."The document is alleged to have expressed
frustration with America's inability to halt a civil war in Syria that has killed around half a million people and contributed to a worldwide refugee crisis.
The New York Times and the
Wall Street Journal both quoted from the document on Thursday, saying they had seen or obtained copies. A section of the document cited by the
Times said that
American policy has been "overwhelmed by the unrelenting violence in Syria," while calling for a "judicious use of stand-off and air weapons, which would undergird and drive a more focused and hard-nosed US-led diplomatic process."The
Wall Street Journal report said that the document repeatedly called for
"targeted air strikes" against the Syrian government in light of the collapse of the ceasefire brokered earlier this year. The memo was filed in the department's
"dissent channel," which was created during the Vietnam War
as a way for employees who had disagreements with State Department policy to register their protest with the secretary of state.
State Department spokesman John Kirby said the department was reviewing the cable.
"We do not know, nor are we particularly interested" how the contents of the message ended up public, Kirby told reporters Friday. "People can react to it as they wish," Kirby said, adding that
Secretary of State John Kerry would continue pursuing the current policy of ending the Syrian civil war through a political transition.
Comment: Polonium? That is the same way that Litvinenko was poisoned in the UK. A signature of sorts, perhaps?