Syria is today on the verge of a creeping and bloody civil war. Internally, it faces widespread dissent, fueled by violence between the government and the opposition groups. Externally, the regime has been abandoned by all its neighbors. The coup de grace came last weekend when the Arab League suspended Syria, a member state that had long seen itself as the "bleeding heart of the Arab world," the fulcrum upon which Arab solidarity rested. The sectarian divisiveness that the government had long said it was intent on preventing has come to the fore.
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