January 27 2014 John Kerry: The Ugly American‏ , US Secretary of State John Kerry's delusions continued as he arrived in Montreux, Switzerland

US Secretary of State John Kerry's delusions continued as he arrived in Montreux, Switzerland to open the "Geneva II" talks on the ongoing conflict in Syria. Having successfully bullied UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon into rescinding the invitation previously extended to Iran to attend, Kerry proceeded to bully and blunder his way through the pre-opening of the conference.

"We need to deal with reality here," Kerry said on the eve of the conference. "Bashar Assad will not be part of that transition government."

Kerry's pressure on Ban to uninvite Iran to the conference - though Iran is far more affected by the crisis than the majority of countries invited to participate - was based on Iran's refusal to endorse the pre-condition of support for "regime change" in Syria as the goal of the conference. At least "regime change" was the US interpretation of the Geneva I Communique issued after that conference in 2012.

However the US appears to be purposely misinterpreting the statement made after the Geneva I conference. According to the Communique signed after that conference, there is no demand that Assad must leave office.
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“Is it John Kerry who should say that? [that Bashar al-Assad cannot be part of a transitional government?] Or is up to the Syrian people to decide who should be their President? Shouldn’t it come through the ballot box or through what John Kerry said? Isn’t this colonial, what John Kerry said today? It’s very colonial.”
“We hope that countries that are supporting Wahhabi thinking, that are supporting terrorism will stop supporting it. Wolf, listen to me: Wahhabism is not only a danger to Syria; it’s a danger to the entire world….What we are facing in Syria is a very dangerous mentality that is destructive to the modern thinking, to the modern world, to the coexistence, to living together. It is extremely dangerous.”
“It is a terrible crime what’s happening against the Syrian people, and it is basically through foreign intervention: Saudi, Turkey and unfortunately with the support of the United States.”

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