Civil wars in this region have a nasty habit of dragging on. In 1991, few could have imagined that British aircraft would continuously fly sorties over Iraq for the next 12 years. It would be foolish to rule out an American attack, bringing matters to a close, at some point, but this patchwork Syria, torn into fiefdoms, replete with international brigades on both sides, may come to represent the “new normal” in the Levant for a long while yet.
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