...i also bet that al-Assad is a "jerk"...!

Kofi Annan's plan is destined to fail
Editor’s Note: David Schenker is the Aufzien fellow and director of the Program on Arab Politics at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/27/kofi-annans-plan-is-destined-to-fail/?hpt=wo_c1


While al-Assad may indeed engage in dialogue with opposition figures, he will not consent to real democratic elections that will lead to majoritarian [i.e. Sunni Muslim] rule in Syria. He may likewise agree to vest parliament with more authority and provide the historically powerless legislature with the appearance of relevance. But this is al-Assad’s vision of reform - it does not reflect the aspirations of the Syrian people who, for the past year have put their lives on the line to end the corrupt, tyrannical, and increasingly brutal regime.

What al-Assad will offer during the “political process” will be acceptable to neither the political nor the military opposition. In fact, it’s difficult to see anything short of al-al-Assad’s departure from power being accepted.

So Kofi Annan’s initiative to end the crisis in Syria is destined for failure. To be sure, al-Assad will blame the plan’s failure on the opposition “terrorists” and continue with the atrocities. Meanwhile, the opposition will regroup, and the Free Syria Army, armed by Saudi Arabia and Qatar, will continue the fight to protect demonstrators and end the regime.

At the end of the day, however, the biggest cost of this ill-advised effort may be time. The longer the conflict drags on, the more Islamist the opposition is becoming. Regrettably, counterproductive U.N. efforts like the Annan plan will do little to reverse this trend.

The views expressed in this article are solely those of David Schenker.

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...i also am betting for the better or the worse, that Kofi Annan's plan is destined to fail...!
...you see once you get the EU confiscation of funds, too many civilians dead, and the telivised visit of this "jerk" al-Assad and how he performed, the end result is surely to be a bad one...!
...gadafi's finally gets 1,100 million pounds or euros confiscated...! also a bigger "jerk"...! power has blinded them...! normally with a few million you retire...!


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