Syria’s Agony
The disintegration of Assad’s iron rule into a bloody civil war shows once again that the disorderly collapse of dictatorships tends to foment inter-ethnic war and national dismemberment. Indeed, as in Iraq, Syria’s sectarian strife looks increasingly like a jihadist religious war.
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MADRID – The English author and priest William Ralph Inge once said that “A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.” Syria’s Assad dynasty, however, seems to believe that it can defy that dictum.