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Kucinich and Newmark visit Assad
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For now, the U.S. and British governments and many in the international community believe in keeping communications channels open, while imposing sanctions on Assad. It's not that there's much faith in a talking cure. It's that the alternatives are not taken seriously unthinkable.
Posted by: ryuge 2011-07-01
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=325551