(Washington Post) Anne Gearan - The Obama administration acknowledged Tuesday that diplomacy is failing in Syria. Negotiations between the Syrian government and parts of the opposition are "far from achieving" a peaceful end to the conflict, President Obama said. "The state of Syria itself is crumbling," Obama said. "There are extremists who have moved into the vacuum in certain portions of Syria in a way that could threaten us over the long term." At the peace talks in Geneva, which resumed Monday, negotiators are talking past one another and cannot even agree on what the main goal of the talks should be. Lakhdar Brahimi, the UN envoy for Syria, said in Geneva, "We are not making much progress."
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