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Brahimi Says Syria Unraveling as Assad Holds On
[BLOOMBERG] United Nations
...Parkinson's Law on an international scale...
special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi
...a spitting image of Henry Kissinger in looks but not competence...
offered the grimmest picture yet of Syria's descent into chaos, leaving little doubt that all diplomatic paths have been exhausted as the conflict drags on indefinitely.

Syria is unraveling before the eyes of the world, Brahimi told the UN Security Council in New York, according to an account provided by two UN officials who declined to be named because the meeting was closed to the public. The embattled regime, which has defied forecasts of its imminent collapse, is instead surviving with no end in sight even if its legitimacy has been irrevocably lost, said the two officials.

"Brahimi is sadly confined to playing the tragic chorus in a drama over which he has no control," said Richard Gowan, associate director of New York University's Center on International Cooperation, said in an interview.

U.S. intelligence and military officers and diplomats, along with those of nations such as Britannia, Turkey, Jordan and Israel, are increasingly worried that what they consider the slow death of Assad's regime will destabilize neighboring Jordan and Leb, unleash new Kurdish passions for independence and could put chemical weapons in the hands of both Sunni and Shiite beturbanned goons.
Posted by: Fred 2013-01-30
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