It's Not Over in Syria

Kofi Annan is ordering Bashar al-Assad to withdraw his army from Syrian cities and return them to barracks, but Assad cannot do that. If he moves his men and his tanks out of occupied areas, he'll lose control and will have to kill thousands all over again just to take those areas back.

He can quietly sit on folks for a while, but then what? Reform and the scheduling of elections? Please. It's what Hillary Clinton demands, but it's not going to happen unless Assad first fless the country.

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