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Frequently interrupted by applause from likely terrified legislators, Bashar Assad, in his first...
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Wednesday, March 30, 2011, 11:15 AM ETFrequently interrupted by applause from likely terrified legislators, Bashar Assad, in his first public comments since protests started, gives no indication he will give in to demands that Syria's 48 year old emergency law be lifted.
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Watch for the same thing with corporate earnings reports. Some companies report negative one time items and tell investors to pay them little attention as they are extraordinary items. On a long enough time line you begin to see what is truly extraordinary/emergency vs what is the true results of a business.
Arguably there are currently three cockpits in the MENA region (a) North Africa, the Arabian Peninsular States bordering on Saudi Arabia and (c) Syria and its neighbours. Now all three are aflame.
The Syrian impasse threatens to intensify several core Middle Eastern issues including the following:
(a) the historic Turkish/Iranian confrontation over control of what is now Iraq,
(b) the Lebanese quagmire,
(c) the Israeli-Arab conflict,
(d) the fate of the Kurds, and
(e) in short, the integrity of Syria and all the states that border on Syria.
Here are a selection of reports and opinion pieces that illustrate the Syrian impasse as of March 31st.
fullcomment.nationalpo.../
www.theglobeandmail.co.../
www.guardian.co.uk/wor...
english.aljazeera.net/.../
blogs.aljazeera.net/li...
www.guardian.co.uk/com...
www.turkishpress.com/n...
www.spiegel.de/interna...