Though the talks dragged on for over a week, the Geneva II peace conference on Syria ended without any real deals on any issues of important, and both the Syrian government and the opposition Syrian National Coalition (SNC) traded insults before leaving.
The issue that was closest to being resolved, the siege of central Homs, likewise remained totally unresolved, with UN officials saying both sides were slapping unrealistic preconditions on allowing aid in.
The Syrian government offered to let women and children leave, but said that men leaving would have to give their names at checkpoints, and this would almost certainly mean arrest, as has happened in previous cases where rebel-held areas were lost.
The SNC didn’t necessarily have preconditions of its own, but the rebel fighters inside Homs did, threatening to attack UN aid convoys that try to enter the city on sight. They are opposing aid in general, and say they will only accept a deal that allows everyone in the Old City area of Homs to leave, and take their weapons with them, to other rebel-held areas. Needless to say, that’s also a non-starter.
The preconditions on this and other areas of discussion left both sides plenty of ammunition to declare the other uninterested in making peace, and foreign powers at the talks used this as a pretext to verbally bludgeon whichever side they opposed in the first place.
UN Special Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, whose efforts are the only reason the talks didn’t end on the first day, says he believes there is still some common ground and room to negotiate, and he is trying to arrange a resumption of the conference on February 10. Whether this happens remains to be seen, but the Assad government is said to be non-commtital about any more talks, and after the trainwreck of this week, it’s hard to blame them for being pessimistic.
Someone's trying awfully hard to help the terrorists win.
The foreign state sponsored terrorists in Homs are using innocent people as human shields.
This is not about Syria, this is about the entire Middle East, this is about the brutality of Saudis-Wahhabis, the Bush oil business in Middle East who started all this, hand in hand with a undemocratic western system that ignoring the human suffering in Middle East for over 100 years. Is time for ICC to start the process in prosecuting the Bush gang of Neo fascism with Tony Blair and their generals.
These morons do not realize that all this mess was created by mossad, saudi and CIA mercenaries who pose as "AL CIADA" (as they did since Afghanistan in the 80th) and that the big master plan is to divide and conquer the Middle East by Israel and the US/GB/France!
THe arabs really deserve to be ruled by foreign powers if they don`t get it and kill each other instead of struggling for the independence of the arab people from 200 years of western kolonial and imperial intervention!
I've heard say that Americans deserve to be made the economic slaves that we are well on the road to becoming if they are too ignorant a mass of publicly (non) educated seemingly war mongers and keep electing Wall Street's wholly owned political prostitutes into American government that then leech American tax dollars for Wall Street's corporate (tribal) profits.
Americans are ruled by "dual citizenship" (foreigners) who rule over Wall Street, Hollywood, and D.C. and thsu we war in the part of the wrorld and we spend the majority of our tax dollars in the part of the world…………..where their (our government's true owner's) interests AND LOYALTY lie.
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On the other hand, George Washington was the leader of a very small bank and percentage of the original Americans. It wasn't the majority of the citizens that arose and threw off the foreign hand that was leeching American tax dollars at the time. Instead, a very small percentage of the people effected change……..and LOYALTY in and to America.
BTW, George Washington was America's 1st "homegrown terrorist", …….also a "White Supremacist", who "had an fascination for assault weapons", and "assocaited with citizen militias".
It's high time that one or more modern day "George Washington's" arise and march on Washington (and Wall Street, Hollywood, CNN, Fox, and the rest of the foreigners and their prostitute "loyalists
There are more people dying from Libya streight corridor into heart of Africa as the largest theft of natural resources and national overeignty takes place by Euro Centric and US militarys actions.
In Early 1900 thete wrte but two non european owned mations upon the African Continrnt and yhen the Brits and French stole Sdan from Egypt leaving Egypt tp kidd ejite nutts fot years.
Whst ever happened to the estated $250 billion USD personal wealtj of Khaffafi?What happened to thr febts owed by Europe to Libya that some place at almost 1 trillion dollard.
Why is the masdive water pipelones niilt by Libya mow goinh into private corporate finanvial control of Euro Banks..
Why is tje largest thief in Africa today not the US but France; Who has bern stealing precious and rare earth minerals and especially illegal uranium for its nuke plantsfor over 50 years.
Why sjouldvthey gey the wealth og an African uranium minerald anf third largedt gold produvtion facility in Africa?
LETS not forget where the money passes through hands in the billions; And lets not forget those hands are not of Brown or Black skins but bloody as hell white hands.
The nationd of Europe have tens of thousands of troops and they are in every nation but Egypt; our white military kerp low profies.
Us now finances equips amd traons over 35 natoons procy military hat carry out combat upon civilians mot military forcesUS has some 20 differing combat groups there besides tjose spev ops in Italy and Dubuia and a massive base in Diego Garcia.
SYRIA IS NO MORE THAN A STREET GANG FIGHT BY GANG BANGERS IN COMPARISON TO THE SLAUGHTER OF AFRICANS.