First Real Threats To Assad Strategy Emerge In Syria -- Walter Russell Mead, American Interest
As Via Meadia observes the slow burning resistance to the bloody regime of Butcher Assad in Syria, we’ve been bearish on his character and bullish on his strategy. We think it’s a bad regime that deserves to fall, but that the forces trying to overturn it don’t have the ability to achieve their goals. The internal opposition doesn’t have the strength to push him out, and he has the ability to crush his internal opponents without levels of violence or instability so severe that the outside world intervenes.
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