Posted on 07/04/2012 11:09:34 AM PDT by arthurus
What if Syrian President Bashar al Assad really goes? There is an assumption in the West that the way to win a strategic victory over Iran and improve the human rights situation inside Syria is to remove the Syrian leader. It is true that Iran's prospects of keeping Syria as its own Mediterranean outpost are probably linked with the survivability of al Assad's regime. But his removal might well hasten the slide into chaos within Syria and in adjacent Lebanon, rather than slow it. Al Assad's departure could even ignite a disintegration of the Syrian power structure into various gangs and militias.
(Excerpt) Read more at stratfor.com ...
Forever mired in islam.
Another “think piece” by some scholar/armchair politician who assumes that all problems can be solved by “people of good will” if “we could all just get along.”
Wonder what the Russians would say about all this; they seem to have staked out Syria, and any interference might just as easily lead to World War III.
But only in the real world, of course.
You didn’t actually read past the first two paragraphss, did you?
...his removal might well hasten the slide into chaos within Syria and in adjacent Lebanon...could even ignite a disintegration of the Syrian power structure into various gangs and militias.IOW, the same situation that has prevailed in Lebanon off and on since Eisenhower was President, and the same situation that already exists in Syria.
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