A senior American intelligence official on Saturday warned that the Syrian conflict could last “many, many months to multiple years,” and described a situation that would most likely worsen regardless of whether the Syrian leader, President Bashar al-Assad, fell.
The comments by David R. Shedd, the deputy director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, were one of the strongest public warnings about how the civil war in Syria has deteriorated, and he seemed to imply that the response from the United States and its allies had so far been lacking.
Mr. Shedd suggested that in addition to strengthening the more secular groups of the fractious Syrian opposition – which the Obama administration has promised to arm with weapons and ammunition – the West would have to directly confront more radical Islamist elements. But he did not say how that could be accomplished. Read more at the New York Times.
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Syria is like the coin that never wants to be tossed in the fountain. Let it fall. The end is always more pleasant than the beginning of a tyranny.