This Ain’t Yogurt

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Author(s) Thomas Friedman
Source The New York Times
Date May 4, 2013
URL http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/05/opinion/sunday/friedman-this-aint-yogurt.html
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Quotes-start.png Meanwhile, wherever we can identify truly “good” rebels, we should strengthen them, but we should also be redoubling our diplomatic efforts to foster a more credible opposition leadership of reconciliation-minded Syrians who can reassure all of Syria’s communities that they will have an equitable place at a new cabinet table. (Never underestimate how many Syrians are clinging to the tyrannical Bashar al-Assad out of fear that after him comes only Hobbes or Khomeini.) That way, when the combatants get exhausted and realize that there can be no victor and no vanquished — a realization that took 14 years in Lebanon’s civil war next door — a fair power-sharing plan will be in place. Quotes-end.png


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This item takes a mixed stance on the position United States should intervene on the topic Syrian civil war.