Where There’s Smoke, There’s Syrian Diplomacy
Rami G. Khouri
The old adage that “where there’s
smoke, there’s fire” must now be updated in Middle Eastern diplomatic terms to
read, “where Saudi Arabian, American, and Russian foreign ministers meet to
discuss Syria, there’s Syrian smoke.”
Certainly the most fascinating
diplomatic move this week was the tripartite meeting in Doha Monday among the
American, Russian and Saudi foreign ministers to discuss the situation in
Syria. This means they also must have discussed—take a deep breath here—Iran,
Lebanon, Hezbollah, Turkey, Yemen, Iraq, three different Kurdish
political/military organizations, Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS),
Hamas, Al-Qaeda, the United Arab Emirates military, Qatar, Jordan, Egypt and
half a dozen other regional players who now play some role in the situation in
and around Syria.
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