Kofi Annan abandons Mission Impossible

Kofi Annan recently announced his resignation as UN and Arab League envoy to Syria. His mission seemed promising in the beginning but ultimately achieved no success at all.

Where Kofi Annan got it wrong right in the beginning was focusing on making demands upon Bashar while he should have been focusing on demanding that those arming the rebels stop in order to de-escalate the situation.

In fact he passed on demands that were never aimed at ending the conflict but where aimed at creating breathing room for the rebels to regroup and launch stronger assaults against the government. We can see the growing rebel strength in Syria. It is sad to say but it appears Kofi Annan was used. His resignation may arise from the fact that he realises that he is merely being used.

It is not up to Bashar to withdraw the CIA agents busy directing the rebels. It is not up to Assad to stop the sophisticated communications equipment Barak Obama is busy sending to them. It is not up to him to stop Sunni governments from bankrolling the rebels. Yet all these important factors were never tackled in Annan's original plan.

In short it is not up to Assad to end the violence. All he can do is fight on as best as he can. He is in a little bit better position than Gadhafi in that he has direct Russian help. So the fight can drag on quite a bit and the Syrians are sure gonna suffer. I would call it Cold War version 2.

The rest of us in the world are completely powerless to stop the American and Western sponsorship of the violence. We are not even a position to counter their propaganda. According to them everything is Assad's fault. Even a baby still suckling at their mother's breast will know that sponsoring and propping up a second centre of power will worsen a conflict. So it cannot be that those who a sponsoring a second centre of power have absolutely clean hands in the conflict.

Yes Russia is also arming Bashar, but that is an existing centre of power. America and the West are expressly engaged in efforts to create a second centre of power. There are encouraging as much as they can, while maintaining a measure seeming concern for the ordinary people, conflict between their centre of power and the existing centre of power.

Our brother Obama does not have the vision, courage or wisdom to stop the misuse of American power to destabilise the world, and create hotspots all over the globe, with the only real beneficiary being the American defence industry. For example in Iraq it is Iraqis who died in their thousands but it is Blackwater now Xe who made huge profits.

People who think and claim they know everything but upon closer examination prove to know nothing, a busy engaged in efforts that lead to nothing but death and suffering for thousands of people.

The last time we witnessed an American led proxy war against a government in the Middle East we got the Taliban led Afghanistan as a result. There is not reason to believe that Syria is not headed in the same direction.

People also seem to be forgetting that while it is easy to get weapons into the hands of ragtag loosely trained and unaccountable rebels, it is difficult to take them back no matter who wins the conflict. Does Libya ring a bell?

Now that Kofi Annan has abandoned a mission that was always meant to be impossible, the rivals can lay into each other with greater ferocity. When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers. The grass, has no choice on where the elephants pick their fight. It is unfortunate that the Syrian people have to be the grass beneath the feet of duelling elephants.