When Syrian school children in Daraa wrote those slogans on the walls of their city in 2011, did anyone expect what hell we're going to see in the next eight years? It's 2019 and we're helplessly watching ethnic cleansing and demographic engineering. In 2019.
The SDF were never perfect. But they presented the best governance structure and the best model for coexistence in the Syrian theater. Many civilians, regardless of ethnicity, preferred to live in SDF areas than others.
There will be many counterfactuals. Many "what ifs". Many "we should haves". But nothing will take away the tragedy of this moment and the collapse of what was, for a good while and all things considered, the freest part of Syria.
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