CSPAN Public Affairs February 19, 2013
Least aware of the fact that they assaad, might have a short halflife is to move over the other side of the fence with brahimi. On our side, this is not a popular view, but to join in with preconditions to negotiations and drop them all, theres no good negotiation, in my view, that starts with the other side requiring it to give up as a consequence. That is not realistic. I do not know why we jump on that . It may have been seen as the one element necessary to keep the syrian obligation together what we tried to move in the other direction, but now that he has made his point of view, we have s...