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Promote peace by stoking conflict, he urged. "American ability to encourage a peaceful transition in Syria will likely be in direct proportion to the help the U.S. provides the opposition.""Washington needs to do more now than provide advice and nonlethal assistance...." Stopping short of endorsing Western intervention, he implied it.
Council on Foreign Relations Middle Eastern studies senior fellow Ed Husain headlined "Stop Fanning the Flames."
Ideologically divergent insurgent fighters "have conflicting visions of what a post-Assad Syria should look like," he says. Differences bode ill for Syria's future, he added.
"Different factions in Syria must work together, while other countries supporting these factions should be wary of the power they yield."
Syrians should decide their own fate, he urges. Pro-Western ones alone should choose. Perhaps he believes Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya provide templates for Syria.
Husain represents monied interests. They seek dominance by any means. He'd prefer less violent and contentious ways of getting it. Nonetheless, he's uncompromising on imperial goals.
FREE-Syria hardliner Rafif Jouejati headlined "Oust Assad with Plan in Place."
Overthrow Assad, she urged. "No attempts to stabilize the country can be successful unless the originator of the armed conflict -- Assad and the single-party system he represents -- is deposed."
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