A Commentary by Christoph Reuter
AFP/ A Syrian woman carries her child in a refugee camp near the Turkish border.
Western leaders -- and German ones, in particular -- have come up with countless reasons for not providing military support to Syrian rebels. But this just plays into the hands of Assad, who has nothing to win, but plenty to destroy.
Take a moment to imagine it the other way around: A Syrian dictator with a full beard -- an Islamist harboring al-Qaida sympathies -- has the Christian population of his country shot, starved and bombed, lets fanatical militias massacre non-believers and burns the country down to ashes. Were that the case, an alliance of Western nations would step up to intervene faster than you could say "Mali."..........
FULL ARTICLE HERE: Commentary on Western Excuses for Avoiding Intervention in Syria - SPIEGEL ONLINE
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