washingtonpost.com: A Tyrant Cornered
If you are looking for an example of irresponsible thinking just read this editorial. There are not many reasons to applaud the regime in Damascus, but there needs to some reflection on what institutions would replace Bashar al-Asad and company should the entire apparatus suddenly collapse. The only well-organized opposition is the Ikhwan (Muslim Brotherhood). Other opposition elements are inchoate and fragmented. While there should be no principled objection to Ikhwanis in power, a political system in which there is only one unchecked claimant to power is neither a recipe for liberty or for calm. As the USA has learned to its pain in Iraq, serious political institutions are not born overnight and therefore we need to think more seriously a process of reform and liberalization rather than blindly welcoming the collapse of a house of cards.
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