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Flat White

Ba’athism or Islamism?

18 April 2017

10:00 AM

18 April 2017

10:00 AM

BOSTON, UNITED STATES — Thought experiment: what if NATO deposed Assad, installed a democracy in Syria… and the public voted Assad back into office? That’s by no means outside the realm of possibility. Opinion polling in the beleaguered nation is obviously scant, but Assad is consistently at or near 50 per cent approval.

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