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America's top diplomat John Kerry appears to have developed a bleeding heart of emotional concern for Syria. So too have his British and French counterparts.- and hence the talks in Vienna, convened primarily at the behest of Kerry's shuttle diplomacy last week."It's time to stop the bleeding and to start the building," said the US Secretary of State in the Austrian capital. Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov featured prominently at the summit, which was also attended by arch-rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran. Delegates are to meet in the next two weeks to pursue, allegedly, a political resolution of the Syrian conflict.Anyone with an informed understanding of the war in Syria will not buy Kerry's "bleeding heart" for peace. Nor that of Washington's lackeys, including Britain, France, Turkey, or the Gulf Arab monarchies Saudi Arabia and Qatar.The notion peddled by the Western news media of "moderate rebels" is an execrable fiction that belies the truth of how Washington and its allies have attempted to destroy Syria and terrorize the population into submitting to their objective of overthrowing the elected government of President Bashar al-Assad."World powers in quest for peace," intones the BBC, with the typical whitewashing service of the incredulous Western media.The regime-change conspiracy has been well documented. Former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas disclosed in 2013 that he was approached by British officials back in 2009 - two years before the conflict erupted - with the proposition of a secret plot to overthrow Assad. To his credit Dumas refused, knowing that it was a criminal interference in a sovereign state.British-based academic Sharmine Narwani, reporting from Syria, has compiled how the- thus sparking what the Western media mendaciously refer to as a "civil war" and "pro-democracy uprising". There was no such thing. It was a US-led subversion from the outset, the kind of black ops that the Western imperialist powers specialize in. A relevant recent example is the CIA-sponsored coup in Ukraine which was consummated by the notorious sniper massacre in Kiev on February 20, 2014.American, British, French and Turk special forces have been embedded in Syria from the get-go., who openly wave Al Qaeda and Islamic State flags. We could go on. The ratlines have been well covered elsewhere.So, are we to seriously believe that at this late hour, Washington and its minions are suddenly overcome with humanitarian concern for Syria? Only perhaps if you rely on the New York Times, CNN, BBC, the Guardian and so on for "news" - which translated from Orwellian speak into plain language meansThis, by the way, is why the US and its lackeys are gunning for Russian media outlets. Because theAnyway, back to the bleeding hearts of Kerry, Hammond and Fabius. What is really jerking this triumvirate of rogues into convening "peace talks" is this: Russia's military intervention in Syria, beginning on September 30, is. Over 1,600 targets smashed over the past month. Russia is doing what the Western powers claimed that they were doing for the past year (another cynical ruse laundered by the Western media.)This is why the Western terror masters are all of a sudden running to Vienna for "negotiations". Their covert war in Syria is being eviscerated on the ground by the combined forces of Russia, the Syrian national army and Iranian military advisers. The West's billion-dollar terror assets are being annihilated.In desperation, the Western powers are now turning to the political lever, as opposed to their soon-to-be defunct covert military lever.The "political process" that the West has belatedly adopted is being pursued now to achieve their objective of regime change in Syria by other means, because the military means are being pulverized by Vladimir Putin's bold intervention.Washington and its cronies are pushing for a ceasefire, elections and a "political transition".Come off it. These despots behead and crucify anyone calling for elections in their own feudalistic Western-backed fiefdoms.This weekend, John Kerry's subordinate at the US State Department, Tony Blinken, announced, hot on the heels, of the Vienna summit that Washington is to ply $100 million into Syria to "support the moderate opposition."According to Voice of America, Blinken said the money "would be given to help the Syrian opposition boost local governments and civil societies... for keeping schools open, restoring access to clean water and electricity, and supporting an independent media."The despicable difference in Syria is that the "civil society" and infrastructure supposedly being repaired with $100 million has been destroyed in the first place by Washington's nefarious regime-change war. The apparent generous largess of the US government in Syria is not just about infiltrating the country politically, it is also a disgusting bribe dangled before a war-torn, devastated nation.The Western powers are endeavoring to co-opt Russia and Iran to contrive a political framework aimed at achieving their core goal - ousting President Assad.What Russia and Iran should do is defeat the Washington-led axis politically, as they are doing militarily.As for John Kerry's "bleeding heart". The blood-soaked hands of Washington, Britain, France, and the other criminal states, are the far more real and pertinent issue.