„Even since the talks convened on Friday, 47 civilians have been killed by the regime and its allies, according to the normally reliable Syrian Network of Human Rights, a monitoring group. You might say that such stories are exactly why talks are necessary: to bring an end to this whole bloody business before the deaths become even more routine, even less worthy of note. But what if the truth were the opposite? That the whole point of the talks was to inure us to the violence, and to demonstrate to the world through the implacability of the participants that the fighting has to continue, and that the international backing for them was justified?“ (Der Journalist Richard Spencer in der Online-Ausgabe der britischen Tageszeitung The Daily Telegraph: Syrian peace talks are just a cover for escalating violence)
