COMMENT TO AN ARTICLE IN THE GUARIAN
Your headline does not reflect the facts.
Assad has agreed to elections in future.
That has been Russia's position, and finally America has
accepted that, dropping its absolute demand for his removal.
Who knows the outcome?
Assad remains a fairly popular figure with almost certainly
a larger margin of support than David Cameron has.
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Response to a reader
about the reasons America wants Assad gone:
Getting rid of Assad has perhaps three key aspects.
1) Israel hates him, and Israel pretty much controls the
American Congress.
2) Assad is too independent of America's policy line on a
number of things. Just that fact never goes
down well in
the Evil Empire.
