From Reuters:
Security forces killed more than 60 people across Syria on Friday during demonstrations demanding the ouster of President Bashar al-Assad, and the United States imposed new sanctions on key figures…
Sanctions won’t really do anything – there isn’t a lot of trade between the United States and Syria, so US sanctions will have a minimal effect on Syria’s behavior. Meanwhile, it appears that Syria’s security forces are at least back-stopped by non-Syrians and so the government has an armed force willing to use quite brutal measures against Syrians…as has been demonstrated by the on-going massacre. I’m afraid that only force will do…unless the Syrians can get on top of this, themselves.
Pity they aren’t the right kind of civilians…if they were Libyan, we’d be all over this…for at least a week or two.
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