With just two weeks remaining before the oft-delayed Geneva II peace conference is supposed to begin in Montreaux, the whole situation is in serious doubt, with the only rebel faction down as likely to attend on the brink of collapse.
The Syrian National Coalition (SNC) has been hemming and hawing about whether or not they’d actually show up for months now, and those familiar with the situation say that the very act of asking them to do something as big as show up with a delegation in Geneva put so much pressure on the group that it has torn them apart.
The SNC has little to no influence inside Syria to begin with, and attending the talks risks not only alienating the real rebel factions, but disappointing Western backers who’ve been pushing them as a “government-in-exile.”
That has left many of the group’s members voting against attending the talks at all, though this too risks harming their relations with the West, and making the group’s complete ineffectiveness all the more apparent.
With the date all set and the hotels booked, Geneva II will go on with or without the SNC, but at this point, it’s shaping up to amount to a bunch of Western nations browbeating an Assad government delegation, with no real chance of a serious deal being reached.
Stop giving them a embellishment legitimizing something that never was there to begin with, Syrian opposition although they oppose the Syrian government or the Syrian president but after almost three years of destruction, terrorizing the Syrian people they still need to prove that they have the people's backing, by not being able to do so they are looking for ways to have their names as "opposition" to sabotage more of what they can provide or accomplish, nothing.
Good comment “guest”. Never mind that 70% Syrians still support their President and the government, who cares about that but themselves?
For from-a-safe-distance-keyboard-ace-journalists like Ditz and the US regime these bearded freaks and cannibals are the legitimate freedom fighters, until they bite our feeding hand, that is and until the zionist settler´s states mission is accomplished.
[moderator’s note: It’s not nice to lie about Jason Ditz, or any other Antiwar.com staff. You get one chance to knock it off – TLK]
Good comment “guest”. Never mind that 70% Syrians still support their President and the government, who cares about that but themselves?
For from-a-safe-distance-keyboard-ace-journalists like Ditz and the US regime these bearded freaks and cannibals are the legitimate freedom fighters, until they bite our feeding hand, that is and until the zionist settler´s states mission is accomplished.
[moderator’s note: It’s not nice to lie about Jason Ditz, or any other Antiwar.com staff. You get one chance to knock it off – TLK]
There are few kind of journalism in this world, one who looks at time past and learn from it, one knows the capitalism, fascism, mankind “civilization” history comparing it with today development learn from it for future time, the last one knows all that but ignorance is they key word presenting their statuesque as one who “hops” for people to understand what they write or say.
Like: the Syrian “opposition” although is opposing the Syrian government, as few, as they are, yet they become “THE Opposition” because in US, the USG based journalism wanted them to look like opposition.
The modernized and not independent journalism didn’t care about the 78% or 70% or any number!, they just did what they were told to say, as biggest US and EU news agency did to Iraqi people promoting Iraq war and occupation while million of Iraqi babies were killed by Bill Clinton, Madeline Albright Regime to Bush regime to EU regimes of all kind. Don’t blame Jason his doing ” the opposition” job.