Turkey is now Acting Independently of the U.S. and NATO on
Syria
Out of the ???Moscow Declaration??? comes one essential truth: the
West is no longer at the table.
In Moscow, a day after the assassination of the Russian Ambassador
to Turkey, the foreign and defense ministers of Iran, Russia and Turkey met for
a serious conversation. On the agenda was Syria and the destructive war there
which has cost the lives of at least half a million people and displaced half
the country???s population. What began six years ago in Tunisia as a civic
uprising and earned the name ???Arab Spring??? is now ghoulish???a brutal war
prosecuted by Saudi Arabia and armed by the West against Yemen, the horrifying
carnage in Syria, and the suffocation of hopes in Egypt. A pall of gloom hangs
over West Asia and North Africa???a glance backward at the pile of corpses and a
glance forward at that p
