Monday, June 24, 2013
After the defeat of Assad this FSA spokesman predicts a second
'sectarian' war with the Alawite minority in Syria. One presumes in this scenario that the FSA has both defeated
Assad's relatively powerful military and also routed Hezbollah. NYT is impressed with his 'disarming candor'
. NYT goes on to point out that the spokesman preparing for a sectarian killing
spree is in fact a believer in plurality, democracy, and free speech. So not to worry.
[...] In Istanbul, Fahed Awad, a spokesman for one major Free
Syrian Army battalion, told me, with disarming candor, that it would probably
take three wars to complete the Syrian revolution — one to defeat Assad; then a
sectarian war within Islam between the Sunnis and Assad’s Shia sect, the
Alawites; and finally a fight over just how Islamic the new Syria should be.
(Like most of the opposition, he favors a more secular Islamic democracy,
similar to Turkey’s.) Link
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