Syria’s fate sealed, Turkish president says

[tabatha]

Posted on January 31, 2012 by hms9

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has ignored repeated pleas from Turkey to reform, the Turkish president said, lamenting that Syria is now on a path of no return.

Turkish riot police stand guard at the Oncupinar border crossing to stop demonstrators in the Turkish-Syrian border town of Kilis, Gaziantep province, January 12, 2012. REUTERS/Umit Bektas

“Some think that we want war in Syria. Turkey has done everything in its power for a transformation under the leadership of the president. We did everything except beg for it,” Gül told reporters in remarks published in Turkish newspapers on Tuesday. “We worked so hard [to convince Assad]. We told him that one day you will regret it, one day you will say, ‘I did this and that, but it will be too little, too late,” said Gül.

“We regret this, but Syria is unfortunately on a path of no return. The important thing is that this process is not dragged out. There is no [good] end for this. The end is certain. The question is how painful it will be,” the president also said.

http://www.todayszaman.com/news-270072-syrias-fate-sealed-turkish-president-says.html

[hifiguy]

1. Assad will wind up meeting the same end

as Qaddaffi Duck.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

2. I don't get it.

If I wanted to be a dictator with unlimited power and wealth wouldn't it make more sense to have my people wealthy and happy? It seems like repression is very time and resource consuming and it breeds the very sort of resentments and threats it's meant to guard against. It's like the people who want to be dictators are their own worst enemy.

I'd make a lousy dictator.

[jwirr]

3. At least it would be safer.