Call Congress_oppose military strikes on ISIS_2014 sept

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Comment by Tony Nuspl on September 26, 2014 at 8:44pm

"Though the shouts of warmongers may make them hard to hear, we do have choices--choices more likely to lead to long-term peace in Iraq and Syria than dropping bombs. We'll hear from Raed Jarrar, policy impact coordinator for the American Friends Service Committee."

Peace Action's call-in campaign is mentioned in this installment of "Counterspin", a weekly radio program from FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting).

19 Sept 2014
http://fair.org/counterspin-radio/raed-jarrar-on-iraq-isis-robert-w...

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Comment by Tony Nuspl on September 25, 2014 at 4:27pm

PATRICK COCKBURN: Well, I think, that the sort of tremendously messy situation in Syria should be resolved partly by, let’s say, organizing a truce between the Assad government—not a political solution, but a truce—and the non-ISIS opposition, so they can both effectively oppose ISIS. I think that would have an enormous effect. And it could also be an enormous benefit of people able to go back, the millions of Syrians go back to their cities. I think you have to do things at that level, so that there is an effective on-the-ground opposition to ISIS. I think that this present bombing, it looks good for a few days. In some ways, it cramps the style of the ISIS military attacks, but it’s not really going to change anything very much.

NERMEEN SHAIKH: Do you think a truce like that is still possible, given that the airstrikes have begun?

PATRICK COCKBURN: Between the non-ISIS groups and Damascus, the Syrian army, yes, I think it is, because it sort of exists de facto in many areas already, that both the Assad government and the opposition, the non-ISIS opposition, are susceptible to pressure from the U.S., from Iran, from Russia and Saudi Arabia. You’d have to have pressure for this from the outside, but it could be done, definitely.

AMY GOODMAN: Patrick Cockburn, Middle East correspondent for The Independent. His new book, The Jihadis Return: ISIS and the New Sunni Uprising.

from the transcript of the interview on Democracy Now!

"Without a Truce in Syrian Civil War, U.S.-Led Strikes Threaten More Chaos"

24 Sept 2014
with Amy Goodman and Nermeen Shaikh
http://www.democracynow.org/2014/9/24/without_a_truce_in_syrian_civil