ence through Assad's incalcitrance? Some perhaps do, but others perhaps are simply "saying these things" to prepare the battlefield? EFTA00630402 Alastair Crooke is founder and director of Conflicts Forum and is a former adviser to the former EU Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana, from 1997- 2003. Notes: 1.

e is a sense now of something fundamentally lost: with this authoritarian re- culturization - where now is any real reforming, revolutionary zeal? Alastair Crooke is founder and director of Conflicts Forum and is a former adviser to the former European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana from 1997-2003.