The Way to Bring Down Assad

David Ignatius, Washington Post
WASHINGTON -- At the end of a week when more brave reporters died chronicling President Bashar al-Assad's slaughter of more than 6,000 of his countrymen, you hear more calls for sending weapons to the embattled opposition militia known as the "Free Syrian Army."More weapons undoubtedly will flow to the opposition, one way or another, but they're not going to bring about a democratic Syria. The moral case for arming the rebels may be strong, but it doesn't overcome the practical problem: The battlefield is Assad's area of strength, not weakness.A better route to...

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