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A persuasive way to get the point accross

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Submitted by Samuel (United Kingdom), Apr 1, 2013 at 11:26

Maybe the argument could have been made more persuasive if Mr Pipes had proposed a Lebanon style stalemate, where UN troops are moved in to play security theater as they do in Lebanon and that the country is de facto divided between the different faction at hand with the US forbidding any kind of upset to the balance of Power.

Besides UN peacekeeper for the bleeding heart, embroil them in a lengthy and going to nowhere reconciliation process that is going to keep them busy for the next 10 years.

Mr Pipes is well knowledgable in the subject of the what should be done, but giving a How should it be done to the viewers could have helped, maybe even by expanding the Iran-iraq analogy of maintaining the status quo at all cost, or at least at a cost that will wound Assad for the next 20 years.

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This was a brief television appearance. I have an article in the works, to appear in a week, explaining my views in more detail.

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Title Commenter Date Thread
1Iran's proxy Syria [359 words]TomApr 14, 2013 17:28205176
2Syrian 'Opposition' [129 words]sdjamesApr 2, 2013 07:45204904
1years behind [72 words]mythApr 3, 2013 11:07204904
1Stay out-- but Israel will be ever more threatened [141 words]stanley bApr 1, 2013 19:07204894
A persuasive way to get the point accross [148 words]
w/response from Daniel Pipes
SamuelApr 1, 2013 11:26204887
2I am saddened by the murders of 60,000 people in Syria , extra due to the lack of care from the muslim world. [90 words]Phil GreendApr 1, 2013 00:49204881
1third option - partition Syria [258 words]mythMar 31, 2013 18:25204875
4Syria and the lesson from Egypt and Vietnam [259 words]dhimmi no moreMar 31, 2013 08:52204865

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