Syria: In the Middle of a Long Cycle
... stretch of the imagination, especially given the country’s ethnic and religious heterogeneity and the scale of the problems accumulated by that time. Assad’s overthrow would most likely have resulted in Syria becoming not a second Libya but a second Iraq, which, for nearly two decades, has been trying to recover from the consequences of the “liberating” intervention undertaken by the US and its allies in 2003. Nonetheless, the sad anniversary of the tragic events of March 2011 is good reason ...
15.03.2021