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Bashar Al Assad: The Syrian state has really now left the decent and conservative order of nations.

On the recordDecember 6, 2011
The Syrian state has really now left the decent and conservative order of nations.
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Bashar Al Assad

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Ajami comments on Assad's departure from accepted international norms.

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