Fighters with the insurgent Free Syrian Army. Tyler Hicks/The New York Times
Coming Apart: ‘The Syrian Rebellion,’ By Fouad Ajami -- Dexter Filkins, New York Times
Fourteen months ago, as ordinary Syrians were just beginning to gather in large numbers to call for their leaders to quit power, a cherub-faced 13-year-old named Hamza Ali al-Khateeb was taken into custody after he’d been caught scrawling an antigovernment slogan on a wall at a protest in the town of Jiza. A month later, when Hamza’s body was returned to his parents, it bore signs of the most hideous torture. His face had been beaten purple, his jaw and kneecaps pulverized, his body stabbed and torched. His penis had been chopped off.
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My Comment: I have always admired Fouad Ajami's work .... especially his analysis on trends in the Middle East. In this book, his viewpoint on the civil war in Syria certainly needs to be listened to.
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