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Source: http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/107315/cause-for-celebration-in-syria
After Assad's Fall
(Tablet) Lee Smith - Over four decades, the Assads have supported terrorist groups that targeted the U.S. and American allies in Israel, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, Turkey, and the Gulf Arab states. The fall of the Alawite regime is unlikely to usher in a Syrian government that the U.S. will be able to consider a reliable ally. Nor will Sunni rule likely lead to an age of freedom and democracy. It is doubtful that Sunni-led Syria will be anything other than an autocracy, like every other Sunni Arab state in the Middle East. However, anything that weakens the Iranians is a net gain.