The conference could serve, however, to more earthly goals but not negligible: prisoner exchange, establishment of a truce even in limited areas of conflict; delimitation of humanitarian corridors to alleviate the suffering of the civilian population, to everything, but always benefit of inventory, has said that the Syrian government is provided.
The worst thing is that if the conflict in the ranks of the uprising vestiges of a third position - with you or against you -the brutal crackdown by the army against what was an initially peaceful protest has rolled, and its main representatives have chosen exile. A paradigmatic case is that of Jihad Makdissi, christian, former Foreign Ministry spokesman, who defected in December 2012 and expected in London today expect that depletion of combatants miraculously revive this third way between Assad and the furious jihadism.
The least bad that can happen in these circumstances is that efforts to mitigate the conflict - trade agreements, truces and runners - thrive after consulting with the commanders on the ground themselves. That could have served Geneva II, because no one makes peace while creating that has not been defeated. And that moment has not yet arrived for the contestants.
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