06/03/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Western outsourcing of regime change in Syria may mean chaos
Syria before the fall of Bashar Assad bears a striking resemblance to Libya after the fall of Moammar Gadhafi. A common denominator of the Syrian and Libyan conflicts is the covert backing of the rebels by external countries or groups who do not have to live with the consequences of that support. From a comfortable distance, the outsourcing of regime change to a proxy army of disparate rebel movements may actually seem like a sound idea. On the ground, however, such an undertaking is as unpredictable as it is uncontrollable.
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