re: #336 Targetpractice

Prepare for some vein poppin’:

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That won’t create vein-popping at least not on the American right, because the people whose veins would pop (which does not include me) have largely seen John Kerry as a “spineless, tyrant appeasing traitor” since 2004. they’ll just treat this as confirmation.

But in Turkey, whose government seriously wants Assad gone, veins may well pop. We could forestall that by having Kerry make clear that any such negotiations would be on the terms of exile for the Assad family. The problem with such a caveat is that Bashar Assad is unlike to accept terms that see him and his family exiled, since he and his intel-chief brother think they can win the civil war in Syria and thus keep power.