Suffering and the Need for Negotiation and Reconciliation There is one final message in these numbers. A divided Syria will mean division into insecure enclaves with no clear economic structure or support infrastructure and delay any healing and progress by years, if not indefinitely. An Assad victory can only occur through constant enduring repression, consume most state assets in security spending, and isolate Syria’s economy in many ways. A Sunni Islamist extremist victory would mean trying to push the country back to some idealized version of the Caliphate and 6th Century where no Alawite, Christian, Druze or other minority could be safe. The U.S. and every country outside Syria needs to think about both the total butcher bill in current human suffering and the need for a solution that does not make things worse. An Assad victory would be a nightmare, but so would the wrong kind of rebel victory that either gave extremists power or took broad revenge against the Alawite and Assad’s other supporters.
Posted on: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 14:50:22 +0000
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