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Context of Assad's DepartureBashar Al-Assad long ago lost legitimacy in the eyes of the majority of Syrians; he crossed a point of no return when his forces began making no distinction between the rebels and ordinary citizens. But despise him or love him, it is irrelevant. What matters is the context of his departure and the resulting effect on the country and the region as a whole. Given the status quo, it remains to be seen if the opposition is capable of forming a competent interim authority to begin to establish an agreed upon framework facilitating a smooth transition from the regime – but it may not be possible without the involvement of Assad. Video: 2013 Meet the snipers of the Free Syrian Army (FSA).Deterioration and EscalationThe challenges in observing and assessing the Syrian conflict is that the public is fed snippets of various parts of the escalations from a multitude of sources in which competing interests and suspicious motivations more often…
