After Assad, The Real Bloodbath Could Begin -- Paul McGeough, Sydney Morning Herald
Western nations may have little say on what unfolds in Syria.
As haunting images and reports of diplomatic frustration crowd accounts of the horror of life in Syria, memories of blood-curdling conflicts from the too-recent past, in which Moscow and Washington were key players, have been a brake on international calls to see off the diminished dictator of Damascus, Bashar al-Assad.
Despite reducing his country to a charnel house, can the Syrian President hang on, in what is now a regional proxy war? Or, despite impressive military gains in the past few weeks, can Assad's opponents topple him without full-throated international support - military, humanitarian and financial?
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My Comment: As the death toll and violence continues, the bitterness and need for revenge escalates. It is now going to take generations before the bitterness of this conflict can go away.
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