From yesterday's PBS News Hour:
Syria:- http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/world/jan-june12/syria1_03-08.html
report about Syria, including mention of defections
- http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/world/jan-june12/syria2_03-08.html
interviews about Syria with two people, including that guy who's been publicizing the stuff that's been going on in Homs to the rest of the world
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So far all we have is vague statements of intents and quite unregulated political structures that could be literally anything. Until Libya finally manages to get a normal administrative structure running again, such semantics really can't yet be answered. We don't know yet what form it will take.
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Of course the fact that this is all meaningless becaue Libya does not yet have any meaningful, regulated, standardified administrative structures again is kinda telling in a very bad way...
edited 10th Mar '12 1:02:44 PM by Octo
Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken. Unrelated ME1 FanficAssad really wants to kill those who oppose him, and he's very intent on keeping people from speaking out against him, in Syria or abroad if he can help it.
8 000 civilians have died so far, but most people are of course able to live another day by running like hell. Within Syria, 200 000 people are displaced. In addition, 30 000 have fled abroad, and at the moment an estimated 100 people cross the borders to Turkey or Lebanon each day.
So what does Assad do?
He mines the borders
, is what he does. This is gonna haunt the border regions for years or possibly decades to come.
Huh? Lebanon totally is. The Hisbollah is in the government, after all...
Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken. Unrelated ME1 Fanfic
I thought Hezbollah were still vying for control in the government, which itself is rightly fearful enough of the Syrian regime to act as friendly as possible to it to avoid potential retaliation from them.
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Yeah, but you'd think he wouldn't want to give them an excuse (flimsy or not) to very strongly support/advocate any suitably strict punitive sanctions that anyone else might propose in response to this act... or covertly start funding/training/arming opposition fighters in revenge (if they aren't doing so already).
edited 13th Mar '12 11:51:11 AM by MarqFJA
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus."Niemand hat die Absicht eine Mauer zu bauen"...
I think it's the same logic.
Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken. Unrelated ME1 FanficI.e., the intent is to prevent Syria bleeding dry of people by preventing them from leaving. Same reason as the Berlin Wall had.
Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken. Unrelated ME1 FanficOf course this might be bad for Assad in the long run. Remember how the East Germans said: We stay here, when given the opportunity of leaving the country 1989? If the fugitives believe they had no way out, things could get really desperate(well more desperate than they are now). Assad really needs to read Sun Tzu.
It worked once more or less 28 years. If too many people left, Syrias economy would collapse pretty soon, especially after the latest sanctions take full effect. Assad would probably count himself lucky if his regime were to survive for so long. Does he have any sons who might follow after him?
edited 13th Mar '12 12:34:22 PM by Zarastro

They seem to want a little more than federalization. Confederation is more like it.