A civil war that’s bigger than just Syria

[…] Assad’s government has become a killing machine,” says Turki bin Faisal of Saudi Arabia, one of the kingdom’s most senior princes, a former chief of intelligence, ex-ambassador to Washington and a man not given to bombast. “The killing has to stop This kind of leadership is unacceptable. Change in Syria is now inevitable.” He made these remarks at the recent World Policy Conference, a gathering of officials and experts organized by IFRI, the French think tank. […]