Syria Showdown?
The Assad regime faces a new Arab uprising.
Erdogan was right. Foreign tolerance for Assad will mean nothing if a majority of Syrians unites against his leadership. The president might recall what his wife, Asma, said in a recent Vogue profile. She urged her countrymen to engage in "active citizenship," as she put it. "It's about everyone taking shared responsibility in moving this country forward. … We all have a stake in this country; it will be what we make it." It will indeed, but conceivably without the Assads.
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Michael Young is opinion editor of the Daily Star newspaper in Beirut and author of The Ghosts of Martyrs Square: An Eyewitness Account of Lebanon's Life Struggle, which the Wall Street Journal listed as one of its 10 standout books for 2010.
Photograph of Bashar Assad by Louai Beshara/AFP/Getty Images.