Last Man Standing? President Assad fortfarande kvar - kritiker faller som bowlingkäglor

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Last Man Standing? Assads förbannelse verkar drabba de som kritiserat den Syriska regeringen. Många av världens mäktigaste män har tillsammans med de krigshetsande gaphalsarna i media under flera år ständigt krävt att "Assad måste bort". Men, kritikerna har hjälplöst fallit likt bowlingkäglor, samtidigt som Assad och den syriska regeringen fortfarande står kvar...
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2017-01-09 “The future of Syria must be determined by its people, but President Bashar al-Assad is standing in their way. His calls for dialogue and reform have rung hollow while he is imprisoning, torturing and slaughtering his own people.  We have consistently said that President Assad must lead a democratic transition or get out of the way.  He has not led.  For the sake of the Syrian people, the time has come for President Assad to step aside” – Barack Obama, speaking in August 2011. 

When the US President made his first explicit call for the removal of Bashar al-Assad from power in August 2011, who would have thought that the Syrian leader would have outlasted Barack Obama in office.
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Even for the most optimistic supporter of the territorial integrity of the Syrian state, there must have been moments when they felt that the US/NATO war machine would topple Assad and completely Balkanize the Syrian state (I know I did). 

And yet here we are, more than five years later, watching Obama conclude his shambolic reign with a final frenzy of anti-Russian attacks, as Assad still stands in Damascus. [...]

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http://journal-neo.org/2017/01/09/assad-still-stands-as-obama-prepares-to-leave-office/

 

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Last Man Standing? President Assad fortfarande kvar - kritiker faller som bowlingkäglor

   

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