It is too often that one has had lately to hear all kinds of demagoguery
 coming from Western leaders and political observers which boil down to 
the simple formula 'We cannot do anything more about Syria, cos all our 
non-military arsenal of levers and means of pressure has been 
exhausted'. To me that sounds like barefaced cheap lies - very cynical 
too.
There are a lots of things in the arsenal of the US & its Western 
allies to contribute to democratic revolution in Syria, or, at least, 
overthrowing Assad's repressive regime. What to do about Syria?
1. First of all, criminal proceedings should have been initiated against
 Assad in Hague Tribunal quite a time ago. Morally one cannot understand
 why it hasn't been done many months ago, but, taking into account the 
sad realities and absolute immorality of the politics of many so called 
democracies in the West it only stands to reason that Assad is not 
prosecuted by this 'controlled selective justice tool' - Hague Tribunal:
 many politicians in the West are still holding out hope that Assad's 
forces will prevail in the end, no real responsibility for saving 
Syrians will not have to be taken and Syria will continue to remain 
blissfully weak and therefore safe country in the eyes if the US - just 
as is the case with all the rest of the Middle East (about the 
purposeful policies of the West aimed at creating and keeping bloody 
dictators in the Middle East see also http://dr-world.blogspot.com/2011/03/america-refused-to-teach-arabs.html, http://dr-world.blogspot.com/2011/06/why-did-west-start-war-against-gaddafi.html  and http://dr-world.blogspot.com/2011/03/some-extra-about-moral-political-crisis.html).
 It goes without saying that not having started prosecuting Assad 
through the Hague Tribunal just adds to the ruining of the already 
disfigured image and reputation of those justice institutions and 
principles.
2. Stop buying oil.
3. Stop all diplomatic relations with Syria, call back all diplomats.
4. FREEZE all bank accounts and transaction of the regime and its officials.
5. Deny entry visa and movement of any Syrian regime officials within (and through) the territory of the Western and countries.
6. Continue information war and moral support (there is huge experience 
accumulated by the West in this respect in the times of the Cold War, 
ranging from radio-channels provided for the dissidents of the regime to
 helping with financing the opposition groups' own press and information
 campaigns).
7. One the most important things to do: provide free specialist 
consultation to the opposition groups on more effective political fight 
tactics and organizations, about leadership formation and the creation 
of institutions.
8. Last but not least: Western powers must publicly PROMISE that 
irrespective of the situation in Syria the West's relations won't 
improve and all the sanctions will stay in force. Veeeery important 
step, because, obviously, now the Syrian government hopes (just as any 
other government would do in its place), that if it finally succeeds in 
suppressing the revolutionary forces, over time the situation will come 
back to normal, the West as ever, will calm down, and everything will be
 business as usual.
9. You don't need to be Machiavelli to understand that president Assad 
and his groups would resist to as long as possible and kill as many 
people as necessary to support their hope, for one simple reason: they 
FEAR for their lives. If the West is really interested in promoting 
democracy and saving as many civilian lives as possible (which I doubt 
very much on the historical grounds) they can negotiate a form of 
guaranties for Assad's life - kind of safe 'prison-asylum'. I am all for
 putting Assad on trial, but, as a man who REALLY wants to stop the 
blood shed in Syria, I would happily agree to 'imprison' Assad like 
Napoleon on some island with a life-long pension, servants and safe good
 conditions, ONLY to STOP the killings and facilitate the regime change.
 With all my hatred of people like Assad, thousands of innocent lives 
and a speedy change of regime for me are thousands times more valuable 
that one life of this butcher.
All theses things are understood and known by Western powers no worse 
than by me, but they are not done. Hope that new players like Turkey 
will help Syrian people much faster than Western HYPER-HYPOCRITES!
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