But Mr Assad must not get away with murder. Nor should he bank for ever on his old friends in Russia (with China standing by) to fend off condemnation in the UN Security Council. Sanctions against leading Syrians and firms linked to them may hurt a bit—and should be widened. But the best-placed people to make Mr Assad give ground are local—the Turks, the Gulf Co-operation Council with Saudi Arabia and Qatar to the fore, and the usually toothless but perhaps slowly stirring Arab League, which endorsed NATO’s intervention in Libya.
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