GlobalSecurity.org "Opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have formed a "national council" that they say will coordinate efforts to oust the embattled leader.
"Activists meeting in Turkey announced the group's formation on Tuesday, but they provided few details on the group's make-up." Also here.
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| Syrian dissidents opposed to Bashar al-Assad give a press conference in Istanbul |
Syria opposition tries to unite, divisions remain "Syria's fragmented opposition took steps toward forming a national council Tuesday, but serious divisions and mistrust among the members prevented them from presenting a unified front against President Bashar Assad's regime more than five months into the country's uprising, participants said."
Michael Ledeen: Lessons of Libya (and Syria, and, Some Day, Iran) ...."Fourth, dithering makes things worse, and we dithered over Libya and Syria, and at best — at best — we are still dithering over Iran. .... Remember that the fear of mass slaughter there was what produced the Obama Doctrine: Lead With the Behind."
Council on Foreign Relations: Obama's Options in Damascus: "It is time for Obama to exercise leadership and press the United States' preferences for the region on Ankara. As Iran evidently explained to Turkey, the Turks must make a choice. The United States, for its part, does not owe Assad a soft landing." ....
"Only a great power could do so and balance the complex agendas of the Middle East's several regional players. Turkey is not a great power. That role remains the United States' alone." I'm afraid that is not Mr. Obama's position, meaning while he is in office the world is without that stabilizing force.
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