a just peace in Israel - Palestine based on international law , human rights , and equality for all . Indeed , her earlier promise to embrace Israel ’s right - wing prime minister would make salvaging that legacy almost impossible . Nor did she mention the two issues which shape her foreign policy legacy as a senator and as secretary of state : her vote for George W. Bush ’s 2003 war in Iraq , and her role in pulling the administration — including a reluctant president — into the U.S.-NATO regime change war that devastated Libya and sent a cascade of Libyan weapons into conflict zones across North and Central Africa and the entire Middle East .
' Hell itself ' : Aleppo reels from alleged use of bunker - buster bombs Read more A victory in Aleppo would allow Assad to lay claim to most of Syria ’s heavily populated urban centres , while relegating the rebellion to a rural insurgency . The US secretary of state , John Kerry , said on Wednesday that Washington would no longer negotiatecontact.negotiate.correspondencewith Moscow if it did not stop the bombardment . The state department said : “ He informed the [ Russian ] foreign minister that the United States is making preparations to suspend US - Russia bilateral engagement on Syria – including on the establishment of the joint implementation centre – unless Russia takes immediate steps to end the assault on Aleppo and restore the cessation of hostilities . ” However , there has been no significant bilateral engagement since the offensive on eastern Aleppo began .
" I believe the international community has totally failed in all its experiments , and must take real , practical measures towards the ( Syrian ) regime , " Zoubi said , without elaborating . He said there were no signs of any preparations for peace talks , which the United Nations wants to reconvene on March 7 . Talks in Geneva in early February collapsed before they started , with rebels saying they could not negotiatecontact.negotiate.correspondencewhile they were being bombed . HNC spokesman Salim al - Muslat said the truce was a step in the right direction , but a mechanism was needed to stop such violations and encourage negotiations . " There has to be a power that really stops what Russia and what the regime is doing , " Muslat said in a television interview with Reuters in Riyadh .
In a typical sale , the US government is involved every step of the way . The Pentagon often does assessments of an allied nation ’s armed forces in order to tell them what they “ need”—and of course what they always need is billions of dollars in new US - supplied equipment . Then the Pentagon helps negotiatecontact.negotiate.correspondencethe terms of the deal , notifies Congress of its details , and collects the funds from the foreign buyer , which it then gives to the US supplier in the form of a defense contract . In most deals , the Pentagon is also the point of contact for maintenance and spare parts for any US - supplied system . The bureaucracy that helps make all of this happen , the Defense Security Cooperation Agency , is funded from a 3.5 percent surcharge on the deals it negotiates .