Leaving Syria’s future up to the Turks
Last Updated: 12:14 AM, December 13, 2011
Posted: 10:03 PM, December 12, 2011
While the West is struggling to respond to Syria’s bloodbath, Turkey is thinking ahead to the days when Bashar al-Assad’s regime is gone.
This crisis exacts dozens of deaths each day, fitting every definition of the supposed US and Western “responsibility to protect” civilians in peril. And events in Syria are crucial both to our goal of promoting liberal democracy in the Mideast and to our global interests. But our actions have been next to nothing.
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