This is the story of syrian president bashar assad a tyrant who has waged a brutal war against his own people hes used chemical weapons should this despotic butcher be allowed to take part in peace talks with western states. We have to talk to assad and his representatives. Asada and his russian allies have after all played a key role in helping the west defeat Islamic State forces but can really help to stabilize the middle east as a useful tyrant. Assad visit Syrian Government troops in the summer of twenty sixteen the Syrian Government has been fighting a bitter civil war for more than six years more than three hundred thousand people have been killed in the conflict ten million have been forced to leave their homes tens of thousands have been arrested and tortured in government prisons. But assad could still prove useful to the west. As a mudra bosher are i suspect in some measure is always trying to live up to the image of his father. The latest wave of terrorism in europe the ref
This is the story of syrian president Bashar Al Assad a tyrant who has waged a brutal war against his own people hes used chemical weapons should this despotic butcher be allowed to take part in peace talks with western states. We have to talk to assad and his representatives to puzzle. Asada and his russian allies have after all played a key role in helping the west defeat Islamic State forces but can really help to stabilize the middle east as a useful tyrant. Here on sunday visit Syrian Government troops in the summer of twenty sixteen the Syrian Government has been fighting a bitter civil war for more than six years more than three hundred thousand people have been killed in the conflict ten million have been forced to leave their homes tens of thousands have been arrested and tortured in government prisons. But assad could still prove useful to the west. As a mudra bosher are i suspect in some measure is always trying to live up to the image of his father. The latest wave of terro
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This is the story of syrian president bashar assad a tyrant who has waged a brutal war against his own people hes used chemical weapons should this despotic butcher be allowed to take part in peace talks with western states. We have to talk to assad and his representatives. Assad and his russian allies have after all played a key role in helping the west defeat Islamic State forces but can really help to stabilize the middle east as a useful tyrant. And. Here visit Syrian Government troops in the summer of twenty sixteen the Syrian Government has been fighting a bitter civil war for more than six years more than three hundred thousand people have been killed in the conflict. Ten million have been forced to leave their homes tens of thousands have been arrested and tortured in government prisons but assad could still prove useful to the west. As a mudra bosher are i suspect in some measure is always trying to live up to the image of his father. The latest wave of terrorism in europe the
Question is the word we. How is this counter messaging going to be organized . To what extent is it going to be spontaneous . Does it represent the youth of the region . My friends from the arab world keep insisting to me that as powerful and intimidating as is i. S. Messaging is, what is dominant in arabic is what i call the freedom spirit, the square statement i am connected and i am not going to take it anymore, and i wont take it from an authoritarian leader and i am going to live in my own world. Somehow that message that spirit of connectiveness, i think, of free citizens, which is still there and we get too depressed about the arab winter sometimes, and its still there and that has to become more of the dominant narrative. It probably needs help from governments, but i worry in the post snowden age about swallowing the poison pill. I worry about steps that seem sensible in terms of messaging that end up limiting the message, or undercutting it. I think this is an area where its