Countries that managed to rebuild commanding state structures after popular nationalist revolutions - such as China, Vietnam, and Iran - look stable and cohesive when compared with a traditional monarchy such as Thailand or wholly artificial nation-states like Iraq and Syria. Votes: 1
The Syrians lost out because they happened to have their revolution during an election cycle in America, France, and bizarrely, some kind of election cycle in Russia. Obama wasn't going to be seen to commit anything to Syria, that would be political suicide, but he's also got a Nobel Peace Prize sitting on his mantelpiece. Votes: 1
Revolution should be Syrian, cannot be revolution imported from abroad. Votes: 0
Experimentalpolitik: die Französische Revolution. Votes: 3 Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. Votes: 3 John F. Kennedy
President Bush was disgusted by the Assad regime's oppression of the Syrian people as well as its support for terrorism, interference in Lebanon, and encouragement of jihadist attacks on Americans in Iraq. Votes: 4 Elliott Abrams