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daleo

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6. It sounds like there are at least three sides in this fight

Reply to denem (Reply #5)

Thu Apr 11, 2013, 12:23 AM

Apr 2013

Secularists, Islamists and the Assad ruling status quo. Backing the first, may very well give us the second. Backing the second is trouble. Backing the third is problematic, but may help keep the second out of power. It is not an easy choice, even from a very non-idealistic point of view.

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I don't think so leftynyc Apr 2013 #3

I don't know why John2 Apr 2013 #4

DU'ers are wilfully ignorant or they just don't care. denem Apr 2013 #5

It sounds like there are at least three sides in this fight daleo Apr 2013 #6

Would that it were so simple. Comrade Grumpy Apr 2013 #7

you left out tribalism quadrature Apr 2013 #8