Reuters: Syrian opposition casts doubt on U.N. peace talk plan
Syrian rebels said on Wednesday they were under fierce government attack near the Turkish border despite a cessation of hostilities agreement and a representative cast doubt on whether U.N.-backed peace talks would go ahead on March 9 as planned.
The agreement drawn up by the United States and Russia came into effect on Saturday and has slowed but not entirely stopped a conflict that has been going on for almost six years. Both the government and rebels have accused each other of violations.
The agreement does not include Islamic State or al Qaeda's Nusra Front, which is widely deployed in opposition areas.
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2 comments:
The "Syrian Opposition" in this gloomy Reuters report is George Sabra, chief of the US-sponsored Syrian National Coalition which H. Clinton worked on for years (guys meeting in Egyptian hotels) to...replace Assad. Sabra is a former member of the Syria Communist Party who was persecuted by Syria.
So in this case Sabra is really a stalking horse for the US, who would like this whole enterprise to fail so that Syria might be broken up.
Pat Lang is a bit more optimistic. (quote)
Wall to wall, the R+6 are progressing in the task of running a marvelously successful ANTICOIN campaign. The Syrian government has declared an amnesty for non-jihadi rebels. As you can read above that seems to be doing well. It is better to work on re-integrating them than to kill them all which is the alternative policy choice.
Across the country the war goes on against the jihadis. ground is being regained everywhere, ground that will be useful in the final battles needed to make Syria jihadi free. The attritional battle is also going well.
Turkey appears to be stymied by the threat of Russian arms and the War Party hawks in the Borgist US government is "turning and burning" in frustration. The post-Dempsey US Defense Department and JCS is now completely in the hands of the Borgist war party who obviously lust for a confrontation with Russia. It would be tempting to attribute this "bloody mindedness" to male hormonal excesses but, unfortunately the works of the worst are women.
IMO the war in western Syria will be largely ended in the next couple of months. After that, the R+6 will make their contribution to the destruction of IS (the enemies of God).
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