Crowing about having successfully gotten Iran uninvited from the Geneva 2 peace talks in Montreaux this week, US State Department officials say the goal is now to get the talks to “focus on the task at hand,” which they said was imposing a political transition that would oust President Assad.
Early last week, Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian FM Sergey Lavrov were talking about partial ceasefires and serious measures to end fighting on the ground, but after the Assad government endorsed those plans, the US changed starkly, and now says any attempt to talk about ceasefires is an attempt to “distract” from the goal of removing Assad from power.
The whole US objection to Iran even being involved in the talks was because they hadn’t officially endorsed ousting Assad yet, which leaves open the question of why the US is allowing either Assad or the Russians to attend.
It also leaves open the question of what can even theoretically be settled by these talks, since most of the rebel fighters haven’t even been invited, and the only group attending is the relatively small Syrian National Coalition (SNC), a US-endorsed faction with little influence inside Syria itself.
Meanwhile, Assad is hoping that the Geneva talks can discuss the growing al-Qaeda takeover of the nation’s north, a very real concern for all parties involved but one which the US seems intent on burying beneath an attempt to impose regime change which is clearly going nowhere.
State department needs to keep the face of Hillary Clinton when she bet on regime change in Syria, the other is to keep the Saudis and their affiliated terrorists happy, bad Al-Queada good Al-Queada groups, whom are indorsed by senator McCain where such idea makes him very happy. Otherwise the politics is about “hops” for kind of jihadist “democracy” to be established by changing the Syrian government, question is if state department or others even think democratic or they are only engaged to help their tyrants.
This is not about Iran, this is not about Bashir Al-Assad, nor is about a president being white or black, this is about a manipulative politics played by the west for the west and their tyrants allies. Iranian friendship with Syrian people is there helping out the best they can, yet, it is not the Iranian regime sending in mercenaries and other form of terrorists to eat the heart of a dud solder in Syria nor in Iraq, it is however the Turkish, the Saudis and other tyrants regimes who are doing that, while western politicians helping these regimes to continue with their atrocity toward Syrian and Iraqi nations.
Did we actually think that the swine were going to give up after their war was thwarted?
Talks with Syria "must" focus on why Saudi Arabia is funding the al-CIAda cannibals.
At times I look in the mirrow and slap myself in the face just to make sure That i'am on planet earth.Al-Qaeda already have a foot hold in Syria, there is no way they are going to relinquish that power. The US on the other hand wants regime change to turn Syria into a war zone reminiscent of Iraq. At what point these politicians in Washington will ever Lear their lesson….or maybe start playing with a full deck of cards.
The only regime where should be changed and is criminal, is Obama regime change.
"…the US changed starkly, and now says any attempt to talk about ceasefires is an attempt to “distract” from the goal of removing Assad from power."
The US changed their minds immediately after a call from Bibi to Kerry…
I couldn't agree more about regime change. Let's start with Berlin, London, and Washington.
If most Syrians want Assad and only the minority of whining malcontents and thugs and murderers want otherwise, who are we to push an outside alternative? Surely Assad, withstanding this unwarranted terrorist assault on Syria, must look more attractive now to Syrians than at any other time during his rule.
If most Syrians want Assad and only the minority of whining malcontents and thugs and murderers want otherwise, who are we to push an outside alternative? Surely Assad, withstanding this unwarranted terrorist assault on Syria, must look more attractive now to Syrians than at any other time during his rule.
John Kerry was against al-Qaeda before he was for it!
There are just so many problems here for US. For one, it must have promised some goodies to Saudi Arabia and Gulf minions to open their purse, summon their "religious" leaders, and organize assault on Syria. Now, it is not deliverable, and Saudis are pissed. Then, there is the whole think of not "looking weak", so "Assad must go" is the mantra — without it, US has no legs to stand on. Then, all the thugs actually made sure they record all the baby -splitting and hanging on treas, head chopping, chain-saw operations, tossing people off the roofs, killing a kid for not giving them free a cup of coffee, kidnapping and who knows what else they did to nuns. Dead do not speak. Trying to separate good from bad is not possible, they are same. Now, Assad can and will run — and the only thing that would stop him is the continuance od attrocities over civilian population. So, can US really afford to talk about stopping the violence? Elections are in March — so, one can guarantee that the violence will prevent the elections.
And last but not the least, as US openly supports the thugs — and was actually ready to bomb Syria for them — how to get out of this? The only way out is to accuse Assad of genocide or something bigger, to insist he should go to Hague, etc. Or else, we will have to "splain" ourselves, and our role. Tricky.