Diplomatic Solution In Syria Is No Longer Possible -- Abdel Bari Atwan, Gulf News
As in Libya, the climate of sectarianism, tribalism, mistrust and fear in Syria is throwing up organisations and militias based on narrow, local agendas.
In 1979, as the Iranian Revolution toppled the Shah, the legendary Middle East specialist and historian Bernard Lewis advised western governments on how to respond to this loss of a key ally in the region. The so-called ‘Bernard Lewis Plan’ proposed the ‘Balkanisation’ of large parts of the Middle East. Western special forces would actively encourage rebellions by minority groups demanding autonomy and create a ‘crescent of crisis’. In this way, strong, nationally cohesive states opposed to the West could be dismantled from within and replaced with a mosaic of warring mini-states.
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My Comment: I concur .... diplomacy is no longer an option in Syria. Without foreign interference, this is going to be a fight to the finish.
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