text: Rightontheleft:
  
  Dream on with respect to Syria.
  
  The Syrians show little disposition to reconciliation in their homeland, in the model of South Africans after apartheid, Liberians after Charles Taylor's rule, and Chileans after Pinochet.  And now, convinced that they can push their adversaries into welfare rich Western countries, the Syrian belligerents and their Syrian civilian allies seem as committed as ever to sectarian war fanned by religion based animus.