Perspective: Is Mr. Assad finished in Syria? | StAugustine.com
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By The Washington Post
For more than five months, Syrians have been stepping out of their homes and mosques with unfathomable bravery in a quest for freedom and human rights.Bashar al-Assad, the inheritor of a regime that has stifled this Arab country for four decades, has responded by killing thousands of his citizens and torturing and imprisoning many more. Yet, knowing the risks, Syrians refuse to cower.
President Obama and the leaders of Canada, France, Britain and Germany on Thursday called for Mr. Assad to step down. It's damaging that it took Mr. Obama so long to make this call; odd that even now he wouldn't speak the words (the White House issued a written statement and put Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton before the cameras); and unfortunate that two days before he issued the statement, Ms. Clinton said, "It's not going to be any news if the United States says Assad needs to go."
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