Syria: The REAL Story

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

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 (link is external)

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... (link is external)
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/is-a-lack-of-water-to-blame-for... (link is external)
http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/WCAS-D-13-00059.1 (link is external)
http://religioner.no/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/religioner.no_wcas-d-13-... (link is external)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/29/climate-change-syr... (link is external)
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ominous-story-of-syria-climate... (link is external)