The Geneva II peace talks, which generated a huge amount of media coverage this year, have experienced a steady drop off the radar ever since the last session, when U.N. envoy Lakhdar Brahimi frankly labeled them a failure. Since then, the concerned officials and politicians have made various statements about the situation in Syria, in effect offering the public the following formula: There is no ability to settle the conflict militarily, and there is no agreement on how to settle the conflict politically. Geneva’s abject failure was in fact a case of no side being willing or able to convince the Syrian regime’s enablers, Russia and Iran, to help move the situation toward a resolution.
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