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. […]