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Syria’s ongoing revolution: The cost of hope

For them to self-destroy, it is not enough for the ruling powers to be the chief responsible for creating social conditions that place the entire society on the precipice of disaster. Neither is this sufficient for those ruling powers to succumb to the bellowing roars of the protesters who have unchained themselves from the shackles of despair and the huts of shame.
2015-03-20
Aziz Tapsi

Syrian Writer

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For them to self-destroy, it is not enough for the ruling powers to be the chief responsible for creating social conditions that place the entire society on the precipice of disaster. Neither is this sufficient for those ruling powers to succumb to the bellowing roars of the protesters who have unchained themselves from the shackles of despair and the huts of shame. Whether real or virtual, the revolutionary political forces dedicated to achieving the goal of change and fulfilling its necessary conditions must live up to the task in hand. 

 

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