UN Plans Post-Assad Syria Deployment -- Al Jazeera
Exclusive Al Jazeera report details world body's plans for troop deployment if Bashar al-Assad's regime falls.
For more than two years, the world has stood by as the violence in Syria has intensified.
Both Bashar al-Assad's government and the opposition seem determined to fight to the death.
Arab and Western capitals have watched the events with horror, but there is little appetite for intervention: Neither the humanitarian price of well over a million registered refugees - although the real figure is much larger - nor a death toll of at least 70,000 have proved to be "tipping points" for the international community.
Nevertheless, world leaders have been drawing up contingency plans in case the situation in Syria decisively changes.
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My Comment: Everyone is hesitant to commit their soldiers on the ground in Syria .... and who would blame them. But it is prudent for the UN to at least position themselves to prepare for the fall of the Assad regime .... and that is where they are right now.
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