Bashar al-Assad is a monster. But getting rid of him won't fix Syria.
"Assad must go."
President Barack Obama uttered those three words in August 2011, and they have since come to define the failure of US policy toward Syria. More than four years later, President Bashar al-Assad remains in power — indeed, it now appears likely that Obama will "go" first. And much of the US debate still revolves around the question of whether to accept Assad’s continued involvement in Syrian politics.
Assad’s fate has been the most divisive issue at every round of the Syrian peace talks... Читать дальше...