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Food and Syria's Failure


(Asia Times-Hong Kong) Spengler - The Syrian government's attempt last month to keep food prices down prompted local merchants to hoard commodities, causing prices to rise. The doubling of world food prices over the past year has overwhelmed the Assad family's ability to manage through the usual mechanisms. Instability will afflict the Muslim world for a generation, and there is nothing that the West can do to stop it.
2011-03-29 00:00:00
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