Russia, US, and UK must work together for peace

The British government is de facto backing Saudi Arabia, and America supplies it with TOW missiles which can destroy tanks.

Saudi Arabia in turn gives them to Syrian rebels, who have used them to inflict heavy losses on the Syrian army. There is talk of Saudi Arabia beefing up military supplies to the rebels.

The West has pursued an uncompromising hardline policy in Syria ever since Barack Obama declared that Assad had to go when the conflict was only a few months old.

It is time for Obama and David Cameron to admit that their stand on Assad is making a peace process for Syria impossible.

They must drop preconditions and get started on serious talks with Putin on a peace process aimed at bringing this human catastrophe to an end.

Dr Brendan O’Brien

Arundel Gardens

N21 3AG

London