Hezbollah fighter, 5 Syrian rebels killed in border fighting

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3. You thought Arab Spring was going to be making daisy chains?

This is a re-alignment of power and that means mass graves. It was always going to mean that.

As for your 70,000...is that just the current dead? How about the half million freezing refugees in camps in Turkey and Jordan? Turkey is thinking about its western treaties. What does that mean for displaced Syrians? Arab Spring is beginning to destabilize Jordan. What does that mean to the Syrian refugees and the much earlier Palestinian ones?

And it just occurred to me to wonder how many Syrian refugees are Iraqis who fled our kindly interference in their lives?

Dictatorships have no provision for an orderly transfer of power. THIS WAS ALWAYS GOING TO HAPPEN.

So far China looks like the big winner but it's early days. Turkey is also licking its chops. We were fools to barge into Iraq. We were at least ten years too early and uninvited. Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld make idiots look like Einstein.