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Damascus Needs Regime Change


(Wall Street Journal) Bret Stephens - Maybe it's time to stop making excuses for the Assad regime in Syria. The Obama administration called on long-standing U.S. ally Hosni Mubarak to step aside when Egyptians took to the streets, on the theory that America should stand with the people in their demand for change - even when we are not yet sure what change will bring. And it did so again with long-standing enemy Moammar Gadhafi on the theory that the international community has a "responsibility to protect" when civilians are being shot in the streets. Both conditions are now operative in Syria.
2011-04-21 00:00:00
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