No Interest in Peace: U.S. Dismisses Syria’s Demand for Written Guarantees From Armed Rebels

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By Madison Ruppert
April 10, 2012

Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary General, current envoy to Syria (Image credit: Conseil de l'UE)


Bashar al-Assad, Syrian President, asked over the weekend for written guarantees from the armed rebel groups assuring that they would lay down their arms and cease fire.

Unsurprisingly, Victoria Nuland, spokesperson for the United States State Department, rejected the wholly rational demand, claiming that it was just another attempt by the Syrian government to buy time. This is yet another example of the United States fueling the conflict in Syria.

“This is just more chaff being thrown up in the air at the last minute to deflect attention from the fact that the regime is not meeting the commitments that they made to Kofi Annan,” Nuland claimed.

Kofi Annan is the envoy to Syria appointed by the United Nations and the Arab League.

“We strongly condemn any attack by the Syrian regime on refugees in bordering countries and we are absolutely outraged by today’s report… These incidents are just another indication that the Assad regime does not seem at all willing to meet the commitments that it made to Kofi Annan,” Nuland added.

She was referring to the report which alleged that Syrian forces fired into a refugee camp inside Turkish borders.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish Prime Minister, called the alleged incident “a very clear violation of the border.”

He also reportedly threatened “necessary measures” in response to the violation, although it is worth noting that there was little to no outrage in the international community when it was reported that Turkey was facilitating the breach of Syrian sovereignty by the Free Syrian Army terrorist group.

Erogan has been quoted using some quite heated rhetoric, while he has been far from specific about the Turkish plans, saying that they will “use [their] rights as granted by international law.”

It is worth pointing out that I have previously explored the possibility of a situation much like this one being used to invoke Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) charter and thus start a larger-scale conflict in the region.

If Syrian forces actually did strike Turkish soil, Turkey could easily have invoked this article, but the fact that they did not makes me question the alleged strike.

It has been reported that a Lebanese cameraman, Ali Shaaban, was killed in Lebanese territory by Syrian forces.

Annan is scheduled to make an appearance at the Turkish-Syrian border with United States Senators John McCain and Joe Lieberman.

McCain was instrumental in American support of the war criminals in Libya, even calling them “heroes” and he has also been on the forefront of the effort to intervene militarily in Syria.
Indeed, McCain has actually called for unilateral American strikes on Syria outside of the United Nations, while the Pentagon has confirmed that they have been working on plans to strike both Syria and Iran for some time now.

There are some other eerie parallels between the situation evolving in Syria and what happened in Libya, especially in terms of the vocal support of al Qaeda – which is publicized in an attempt to give the impression that the Western establishment is not backing the rebels, which is obviously far from the case.

Part of Annan’s plan is to bring an end to the fighting in Syria, although it seems quite clear to me that the United States and the armed opposition groups have no interest in a peaceful resolution.

This is exemplified by the many attempts at dialogue and cease fires which have been wholly rejected by the rebel forces.

I sincerely hope that this will be resolved without a any more violence but the antagonistic approach of the opposition and their total unwillingness to resolve it diplomatically – which is backed up by the position of the U.S., shown here in the comments of Nuland – is not helping push towards that goal in any way.

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No Interest in Peace: U.S. Dismisses Syria