Letters to the Editor: What awaits Syria after the fall of a dictator?
LA TimesTo the editor: With the fall of Syria’s ruthless dictator and finally, the opening of its prison gates, the world is getting a full picture of the barbarity Bashar Assad unleashed against the innocent civilians of his country for years. Oren Spiegler, Peters Township, Pa.. To the editor: Can anyone, other than this op-ed writer, claim there is an established “new regime” one week after “the fall of” Assad? The history of our taking for granted U.S. strategic interests in the region being more legitimate and primary to that of any individual country’s national interests is well documented. However, if no one in Syria has any knowledge or memory of how successful our State Department’s same cut-and-paste requirements proved in Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan, perhaps the writer might not sound so ignorant.