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“I met al-Assad three times. My job was to persuade him to do the necessary and obvious things for the welfare and the rights of his people. I can now say that my efforts signally failed. The Syrian people were saved by military action.” www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

“I find it a bitter truth that action, not talk, was what was needed — and that it was required all those years earlier … the international community’s original sin was to set aside regime change from the outset as the route to end Syria’s suffering.” www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

“The main priority is to rebuild the economy.” “A senior ambassador in Damascus told me recently that while there is international consensus to support Syria, the country still cannot offer predictable rules and legal protections that make investment possible.” www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...