The Syrian government's "Damascine moment" appears to have been a revelation that the only way to survive with their power intact is to crush the opposition movement. They are going to follow the Libyan model rather than the Egyptian one.
I have no idea how successful in the longer term that strategy may be but for now one question is when do we start bombing them as in Libya. The answer is, of course, that we don't.
Pressure on Syria will have to come from other Arab states and things don't move very quickly in that part of the world yet a democratic Egypt could be hugely influential in the Middle East and after this year's elections there we may see a very powerful force for reform emerging.
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