No End in Sight for the Syrian Civil War?
No end in sight for the Syrian civil war?
According to a number of news media reports the Kurdish faction in Syria, the Democratic Union Party, commonly referred to as the PYD, and the Syrian Sunni Arab rebels that lead the Free Syrian Army signed the agreement Feb. 19. All the numerous anti-Sayad rebels, including the Turkish government, Iraqi Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani, the Free Syrian Army and various Syrian Kurdish factions, have an interest in seeing the Democratic Union Party cooperate with the Free Syrian Army.
Sectarian hatred is strong but the rebels are rivals as well as allies in the fight against Bashar Assad, Syria’s current ruler. Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood seem to be far more organized that the other rebel groups and are growing stronger all the time.
Even if Assad cannot control all his country he has many reasons to fight on. He enjoys the full support of the ruling Alawite sect in Syria and they certainly fear a change in rulers.
Assad cannot win the civil war but he is still a little ways from losing it.
Unfortunately the USA and Europe are not doing much to speed Assad’s departure. Any waiting game played by the USA and Europe is bound to increase the million or more refuges already out of Syria and increase the number of dead already at 80,000 with an unknown number of missing.
A no-fly zone is needed but there seems little action on this front from Washington, D.C. The Administration’s policy of waiting to see the conflagration burns itself out is failing.
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