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1. Only Syrian component that complies with Geneva is the Autonomous Administration of North & East Syria. That's a simple fact. Assad says he won't comply with Geneva. So the task is to force Assad regime to comply. Increase sanctions to make support for Assad economic suicide.
2. The article makes a comment that a federal Syria is a concept that is advanced by the teaching of the imprisoned banned PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan. That is true but the concept of federalism as a way to create a stable democracy among diverse regions is not unique to the PKK.
3. Federalism, though imperfect, is the basis for United States' democratic experiment that has stood the test of time. I could conceive of a united Levant under regional federal states. For now, federal Syria is the only cure to the seeming endless civil war and the US as the
4. first federal democracy should stand with the NES administration to demand that the Constitutional process begin over Assad Regime obstruction. Peace and stability are the goal. Assad has made clear he intends endless civil war. The answer is simple. Assad must change or go.
5. The torture, sexual assault & murder that the Assad Regime practiced makes it impossible for the Regime to rule areas that are liberated. Local administration is how we run our States and we should expect others would want to rule their regions and towns free of authoritarian
6. police power control. Americans and members of the European community who seek an end to the cycle of violence that pushes millions of refugees to flee Syria, should reject thinking that makes a proven common sense approach to governance Tabu because a person imprisoned on
