Syria not interested in the US “Lebanon vs Iraq” offer

There is a rea­son behind why the Iraqi gov­ern­ment started to lower its tone with Syria, as Al-Dabagh said today that Bagh­dad pre­fer to “con­tain” the stand­off with Syria. prob­a­bly Maliki started to feel the “back­fir­ing” heat, but there is more.

You need to see this report on Al-Manar:

Amer­i­can offi­cials, specif­i­cally from the For­eign and National Secu­rity hold­ing con­tacts with Syria to resume the nego­ti­a­tions accord­ing to Obama’s frame­work to achieve the peace in the Mid­dle East.

Lebanese Assafir reported about the bargain:

The U.S. del­e­ga­tion tried to attract the Syr­i­ans, say­ing “Give us secu­rity in Iraq, give you the pol­i­tics in the Lebanon”. Syr­ian del­e­ga­tion responded that our allies in Lebanon are strong even after they lost the elections.

Syria was telling the Amer­i­cans “you cann’t give us some­thing you don’t own”.

And about how the Iraq-Syria cri­sis is work­ing for Syria’s advan­tage, elnashra reported the following:

With­out doubt, Syria is the biggest win­ner in this devel­op­ment, it proved to be able to turn the power bal­ance, with­out direct inter­ven­tion. Through other indi­rect means, Syria will ensure it can reach its goals, with­out get­ting pub­licly involved.