So it really annoys me that articles like this imply that the end of diplomacy in Syria is something to be sad about:
Turkey's non-starter call for a humanitarian safe zone inside Syria offers the clearest sign yet that diplomacy to end the bloodshed in the most violent uprising of the Arab Spring is at a dead end.
Any new push by the international community to stop the killing is likely to remain on hold until the new U.N. chief envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, gets his feet on the ground and — more importantly — until the Nov. 6 U.S. presidential election.
Assad would have been happy to stop the killing--as long as it leaves him in the presidential palace. Stopping the killing while he wields power means he wins, now doesn't it?
Assad wins this fight. Or he loses it. We should want the latter.
And diplomacy was never about forcing Assad to lose. It has always been about sacrificing the Syrian people by treating the killings as the disease rather than a symptom of the real sickness.
