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Tunis hints of backpedaling on Syria

Posted by seumasach on July 1, 2013

Huffington Post

30th June, 2013

TUNIS. As the Obama administration has parried pressures to enmesh the United States more deeply in Syria’s murderous civil war, last year’s high tide of international insistence on Bashar al-Assad’s departure seems to be receding. One sign has been in eroding vote tallies in the United Nations. Another is the very public rethinking of Syria policy one hears here in Tunisia, where the Arab uprisings began.

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