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Syria, Two Years and Counting

Nassif Hitti writes that time is working against Syria as the situation worsens by the day.

Demonstrators dance during a protest marking two years since the start of the uprising , in the Bustan al-Qasr district in Aleppo March 17, 2013. REUTERS/Giath Taha (SYRIA - Tags: ANNIVERSARY POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTR3F4RR
Demonstrators dance during a protest marking two years since the start of the Syrian uprising, in the Bustan al-Qasr district in Aleppo, March 17, 2013. — REUTERS/Giath Taha

On the second anniversary of the Syrian tragedy, certain emerging factors in the intensive, overspreading war are being consolidated overtime into becoming established patterns, thus drawing new parameters of the conflicts in Syria and over Syria.

First, the war will never end by a crushing defeat or surrender of either party. Indeed, the conflict is turning into a low-intensity war of attrition that will lead to more disintegration of the state apparatus and fragmentation of a socially rich and mosaic society.

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