Tuesday 28 January 2014

Lakhdar Brahimi and other UN officials arrive at negotiations in Geneva, Switzerland (Jean-Marc Ferré | UN Geneva)

Behind a "diplomatic solution" in Syria

"Our task now is greater support for the revolution, not efforts to force it into submission or surrender. It's not our business to pressure revolutionaries to go to the table; our job is to support them materially and politically against all forms of counterrevolution, domestic or foreign."
Well said, Andrew Pollack. I disagree with some of his formulations, Saudi Arabia and the US are poor friends to the revolution, but are not the current enemy to Syrians in the way the Russians are right now, just the Americans weren't in Hungary in 1956 or the Russians in Nicaragua in 1979; but he's got the primacy of supporting the struggle against Assad right, and that's the most important thing.

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