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Yes, but the article is obvious nonsense, because the US, UK and France clearly did go along with it, that was the basis of the Geneva conference several months later, which this article refers to. The article just mentions that Geneva broke down over whether or not Assad would remain as part of the Geneva "political solution." It doesn't say who rejected the idea of Assad "stepping aside" at Geneva. Of course, Assad did. But unless my memory doesn't serve me well, so did Russia! While the US and other western states accepted this outcome, ie, precisely the outcome allegedly put forward by Russians in this private correspondence. There is one other problem with the article. The article assumes that just because US, UK, France etc DID accept the private Russian proposal for Assadism without Assad, at Geneva, that they would be able to bully the FSA and other Syrian resistance organisations to accept this outcome. Once again, that would have been very unlikely. On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 6:16 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism <marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > This news about Russia offering a deal that Obama turned down is pretty > inconsequential. Basically, Russia sought a Yemen type arrangement that > would have amounted to Assadism without Assad. If the White House had gone > along with it, there would have been continuing war because Assadism would > have left in place the repression and economic inequality that led to the > uprising. For that matter, Yemen has not fared that well after a new face in > power. I think the "anti-imperialists" are all atwitter over this because it > makes Obama look intransigent and not worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize. But > in reality, the Nobel Peace Prize generally goes to scumbags. > > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/mkaradjis%40gmail.com _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
