Syria Quotes

Commentary on a fractured state and the world's slow response.

These are journalistic and political observations, not slogans: a president imposed from outside, a demand for a Lebanese leader chosen at the ballot box, and a blunt line naming the whole conflict a Battle for real self-rule.


Others trace how the insurgency actually formed, naming the Salafist, Muslim Brotherhood, and Al Qaeda factions in Iraq, and conclude bluntly that Syria became a failed state while the world stayed quiet.