Aleppo the end of the world

As a practical matter, Washington’s leverage in Syria is so slight that the White House and State Department find it difficult to arrange even a conditional surrender in Aleppo to save civilian lives. Moscow’s cold contempt for the Obama administration is palpable and understandable. No one knows this better than the American secretary of state.In the end, Russia and Iran need Bashar al-Assad in power far more than the West wants him sidelined. Put to the side whiskey talk about people stepping aside, GHERIEB HAKIM