OPINION

Syria agonies highlight West's decline

News, Jaswant Singh, Published on 29/08/2012

» Syria's agony has generated a variety of unproductive responses: verbal condemnation of the excesses of President Bashar al-Assad's regime; disagreements about the wisdom of armed intervention; and all-around confusion about the possibility of finding a viable long-term solution. Worse, in this sorry state of affairs, the world may be getting a glimpse of a very ugly future.