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[A welcome note of realism from the British right. In fact the Western leadership is already preparing for Assad’s victory since there very little they can do to stop it and the ideological foundations of an intervention against Assad, who is , after all, conducting a war on terror, have been completely undermined. However, defeat can be magically turned into victory through a global shift in US foreign policy orchestrated by Obama. As I have been at pains to point out Obama is actually moving in a positive direction on a number of fronts.]

Con Goughlin

Telegraph

24th July, 2013

This morning’s report that hundreds of former Syrian rebels are laying down their arms and taking up the government’s offer of an amnesty is further evidence of what I have been saying (and writing) for months: President Bashar al-Assad is winning Syria’s brutal civil war.

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