Syria’s Cease-Fire: A Peace Process for Pessimists -- Tony Karon, Time
Few had expect that the four-day truce in Syria‘s civil war scheduled to take effect Friday would hold, much less serve as the prelude to a more sustained peace process. There was little surprise, then, when fighting continued across much of northern Syria and elsewhere on Friday, while a massive car bomb that claimed a number of civilian casualties in Damascus further dimmed the prospect of the two sides even paying lip service to the cease-fire. But the temporary truce proposed by U.N. special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, planned to coincide with this weekend’s ‘Id al-Adha Muslim holiday, was less a naive attempt to broker a peace for which neither side is ready, than it was an attempt to lay down a marker for a future mechanism to end the war when one or both sides see no gain in fighting on.
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