Syria Opinion: The Assad Regime Cannot End this Crisis
Friday, January 13, 2012 at 4:18
CNN's Nic Robertson reports from Homs, where French journalist Gilles Jacquier was killed on Wednesday.
What is beyond dispute is that the Assad regime has lost control of the country. At best, it is no longer capable of defending its citizens, and even its state-sponsored tours by foreign journalists, from attack. At worst, the regime is responsible for planting one of several bombs in the capital, is guilty of killing Gilles Jacquier to frame "terrorists", and is carrying out killings, widespread arrests, torture, and kidnapping campaigns to beat the opposition into submission.
Either way, the government of Syria has failed its people, proving incapable of restoring order. And so far, evidence points to the worst-case scenario more often than it points to the best.
If the Syrian government is incapable of ending this crisis, who is capable, and are they willing to take that responsibility?