Syria lies in pieces and it will not be fixed:
President Bashar al-Assad may be making ground at the moment, but civil wars in this region drag on and on.
As Syrian regime forces seized the Khaldiya district of Homs, a remarkable photograph emerged of the beleaguered city. Its ashen buildings resemble Stalingrad, gutted and pocked. Its streets are flattened, grey smears of dust and rubble.
Tellingly, there are no people in the picture – and that is how the regime wants it. The district of Khaldiya, and Homs as a whole, matter less for their inhabitants, who have been liberally gassed and shelled, than for their location.
The rebels are unlikely to be dislodged from the north-west/south-east axis running from Aleppo, along the Euphrates, to the porous Iraqi border.
If the diagnosis is stalemate, what of the prognosis? Depressingly, Syria and its combatants are breaking into pieces at every level, on both sides of the fight, and across the country.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/10211701/Syria-lies-in-pieces-and-it-will-not-be-fixed.htmlBravo! That is going as desired.