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They know what happened in Iraq and Libya and reject it. Why else would Assad command majority support? The grim alternative is unacceptable.
London Guardian writer Patrick Seale knows Syria well. He wrote Hafez Assad's biography titled: "Asad: The Struggle for the Middle East."
On May 27, he headlined "In Syria, this is no plan for peace," saying:
Washington wants regime change. Annan's so-called peace plan is "in tatters." Urban "guerrilla war" prevents it. They reject ceasefire and negotiations. They want Assad toppled.
Rhetorically the Obama administration supports peace. At the same time, "it is unashamedly undermining it by helping to arm the rebels. This is the central contradiction in US policy."
"....Islamic jihadis, some of them linked to al-Qaida, entered Syria from Iraq, Lebanon and Jordan." They bear direct responsibility for dozens of large and smaller scale "terrorist acts."
Houla and Damascus on May 10 killing 55 and wounding hundreds were most serious. Insurgents "seek to trigger a foreign armed intervention by staging lethal clashes and blaming the resulting carnage on the regime."
Assad confronts them to survive. America heads "an external conspiracy" to topple him. "Trapped between opposing forces, civilians inevitably pay the price." They do in all conflicts.
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