Searching For An International Consensus On How To Deal With Syria Continues

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. World Bulletin

Clinton: We Need Assad's Consent To Put Troops In Syria -- Foreign Policy

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu had a clear and unified message coming out of their meeting in Washington, D.C. Monday: They are looking for a political solution in Syria and won't consider putting international troops there unless the Syrian regime agrees.

Clinton and Davotoglu spent the afternoon preparing for the upcoming inaugural meeting of the "Friends of Syria" group this weekend in Tunisia. Following the meeting, they both urged the international community to support the Arab League's recommendations for Syria following their Sunday meeting in Cairo, which included a request for a U.N.-Arab peacekeeping force in Syria. But Clinton said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who the State Department accuses of murdering civilians, would have to agree first.

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My Comment: International troops in Syria ??? .... Assad's government will never agree to that. The Syrian civil war is now a fight to the finish, and the sooner that the foreign powers realize that, the sooner that a new strategy on Syria can be formulated and adopted. To put it sadly .... diplomacy is over for Syria right now .... we have entered a period of conflict and war.