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3. It's really a one-part plan--Assad remains president for life.

Reply to bananas (Original post)

Fri Nov 6, 2015, 12:36 PM

Nov 2015

It's very possible that Assad remaining president for life is preferable to how things are now, but spare us the bullshit about constitutional reforms and free elections.

Those are not part of the deal. The "unity government" is code for "Assad." And "ceasefire" is code for "Assad wins."

The idea that legitimate elections are going to take place in areas controlled by either Assad's goons, or Al Qaeda, or ISIS, is a perverse joke.

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