Syria's government resigns

BOSTON (MarketWatch) -- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has accepted the resignation of his country's government, according to published reports Tuesday that cited an announcement on state television. Syria's 32-member Cabinet stepped down in an effort to appease ongoing unrest and violent protests that have roiled the country for weeks, the Associated Press reported. Assad, who has been in power for more than a decade, is expected to address the nation within the next 24 hours.


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Look!! It all happened without mass murder and/or bombs!! Wow. Let this be a message to the rest of the region you don't need UN/NATO intervention.

If they didn't learn that lesson from Egypt or Tunisia then they must have a need to learn it from UN/NATO

They want HIM to go... Thus far this is no different than Egypt. It's an attempt at appeasement, nothing more.

As long as Bashar al-Assad is still head of state then this really changes nothing, since HE is the problem and it's HIM that more and more Syrians want to see the back of. As I recall, the only reason he even got the job was because his father was despot before him, and pretty much passed him the throne. I also believe that Assad is of the Ba'ath pan-Arab socialist party, just like Saddam in Iraq, and Mubarrak in Egypt.

I fear therefore that this resignation does very little except to put even more power into Assad's hands. The Ba'ath party still have quite a large following there and any uprising will result in a lot of deaths, to say nothing of the possibility of ethnic conflict between Syria's Arab, Kurdish, Turkoman and other minority ethnic and religious groups.

Originally posted by Fiberx
They want HIM to go... Thus far this is no different than Egypt. It's an attempt at appeasement, nothing more.

Really they want him to go? Have you ever heard of the group calling themselves NED National Endowment for Democracy these guys have been funding CIA based uprising groups inside Axis of Evil countries, they have also have been know to meddle in the democratic elections such as Ukraine, Georgie.

The NED has been both attacked by the left and right political parties, and your saying the uprisings have been normal? sorry but that isn't how the world works.

According to Allen Weinstein, one of the founders of NED, "A lot of what we [NED] do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA