Is Syrian "Peace" Conference Laying the Foundation for War?

[jakeXT]

The Geneva II "peace" conference has all the indicia of a sham. Those opposed to war in Syria better get ready to prevent war again.

The Geneva II conference, which claims to be seeking to end the war in Syria, seems designed to fail and instead to provide an excuse for military intervention by the United States and its allies. Human rights activist Ajamu Baraka describes the negotiations as an "Orwellian subterfuge" designed to provide justification for war and a lot of facts support his view.

The negotiations are destined to fail because of the way they have been set up and the preconditions the United States and its allies in the Syrian opposition have made - demanding that President Bashar al-Assad agree to leave government before negotiations go forward.

The set-up for failure begins with the limited participation. The rigged nature of the negotiations was demonstrated when, at the demand of the United States and the Syrian opposition, the UN had to rescind an invitation to Iran to participate. Iran is a close ally of Syria, and keeping Iran out of the negotiations is an effort to weaken and isolate Syria. It is an indication of a desire by the United States for a preordained conclusion rather than a fair negotiation between the parties.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/21520-is-syrian-peace-conference-laying-the-foundation-for-war

[blkmusclmachine]

1. Trying to pull another "Operation Northwoods," eh?

[yurbud]

2. In this case, it's a more common plot: make them an offer they MUST refuse and then

you have a nice pretext to attack.

We did this to Japan before World War II. We cut off their oil (we were the Saudi Arabia of the day), and one of the conditions for turning it back on was Japan withdrawing from all the territory they had conquered since 1922, which included half of China.

The same deal for us would be asking for us to return all the land we won in the Mexican American War. Although our conquest was farther in the past, Japan was loathe to give up what they had just invested so much to capture.

The result was Japan had to seize Asian source of oil, which belonged to our allies the Dutch and Brits (I think) and therefore would have provoked a response from us.

Since we were a far stronger military power, the only hope of success Japan had was a pre-emptive strike on our fleet, which flipped American public opinion about entering World War II over night.