There is a dicsussion this Thursday afternoon at the UN Security Council on a proposition presented by the UK on the "use of all necessary means" in the Syria issue, "all necessary means" being the code expression for military force. It would seem that the uK and France are less reluctant than the USA about bombing. I fear that a delegation to President Obama would not get to meet him in any case. There has been an effort to have telephone calls to the White House, there being a number for such things. They do not weigh the arguments, but just count the number of call on one side or the other. I, for the world citizens, have been pushing "good faith negotiations" nearly since the start of the conflict when the League of Arab States sent the first observers. I know the Secretary General of the Arab League from his days as the Ambassador of Egypt to the UN, Geneva. Unfortunately there is not much good faith on the part of the government nor the different armed opositions. The problem is usually the same: peace forces start to act too late and once a downward momentum is strong, there is little that can be done. I still think that we can still push for good faith negotiations so that a government more representative of the multi-cultural Syria than the current administration could be put into place, while keeping most of the current government in place. But the level of communial hatred is high and things may blow up. With best wishes, Rene Wadlow, President, Association of World Citizens