02/15/2025
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"Is there enough of a Syrian identity, separate from sectarianism, separate from tribalism? Is there enough of a Syrian identity to unify a nation around?"
"As long as Assad is in power, will there ever be peace in Syria?"
"Is it time to start thinking about the reality that perhaps Syria, as we have known it, its existing borders as a unitary nation, that the fact is it may never again be possible to bring all of these ..."
"We started the conflict, we did not follow through, it left a vacuum, the vacuum has now been filled by ISIS."