(cache)Aris Roussinos on Twitter: "Then what was the example you take from Libya in the first place? If you mean a NFZ would have been a good thing, that may well be the case, but Libya far outstripped that.… https://t.co/RFe3kKbR0o"

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Aris Roussinos Retweeted Shadi Hamid

Which Syrians? Very few supporters of either Assad or the PYD would relish rule by the warlords now in control of much of northern Syria, which is what this policy amounts to. Comparisons between Syria & Libya are almost meaningless in any case: the faultlines are so differenthttps://twitter.com/shadihamid/status/1216779646173425664…

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Yes, we hear people talking about how bad Libya is (understandably). Yet for Syrians, a Libya scenario would have have a Godsend. Most importantly it would have saved lives and given them a fighting chance, something they might not have again for decades to come https://twitter.com/tahabito/status/1216749506051612672 …

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Shadi Hamid‏Verified account @shadihamid 14h14 hours ago

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Libya scenario in the sense of having direct US military action against Assad. By Libya scenario, I'm referring to the intervention but also the aftermath of intervention, as I lay out here in more detail:https://www.vox.com/2016/4/5/11363288/libya-intervention-success…

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Aris Roussinos‏Verified account @arisroussinos 14h14 hours ago

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I’ve read it- at the time as well- and disagree with your argument for multiple reasons

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Shadi Hamid‏Verified account @shadihamid 14h14 hours ago

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well, that's fine. we don't need to agree :) but that's what I mean by Libya scenario

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Aris Roussinos‏Verified account @arisroussinos 14h14 hours ago

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Who would you have replaced Assad with in this scenario? How would you have prevented the ethnic & sectarian divisions which Syria possesses but Libya does not spiralling into a post-intervention conflict which the US would now own?

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Rasha Al Aqeedi‏Verified account @RashaAlAqeedi 13h13 hours ago

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Likely someone he hadn't yet killed?

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Aris Roussinos‏Verified account @arisroussinos 13h13 hours ago

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Very obviously, the question means "what government imposed by US force of arms would be sufficiently regarded as legitimate by opponents of the rebels (not solely supporters of the regime) to avoid continued conflict the US would be obliged to quell?"

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Shadi Hamid‏Verified account @shadihamid 13h13 hours ago

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None of us, to my knowledge, advocated "a government imposed by US force of arms"

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Aris Roussinos‏Verified account @arisroussinos

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Then what was the example you take from Libya in the first place? If you mean a NFZ would have been a good thing, that may well be the case, but Libya far outstripped that.

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1. Shadi Hamid‏Verified account @shadihamid 12 hours ago
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  Again, I feel like many of us wrote quite a lot about this in 2012-2015, including in some of the pieces I sent you earlier
  
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1. Anita Garibaldi‏ @pama_dei 7 hours ago
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  NFZ ? What ?

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