reuters:

Around 89 percent of Syrians approved a new constitution, proposed by President Bashar al-Assad, in a referendum on Sunday, state television said on Monday.

Constitutional reforms are aimed at quelling the growing rebellion against the Assad family’s 42 years in power, but Assad’s opponents and the West have the dismissed the reforms and the referendum as a sham.

Turnout in the referendum was 57.4 percent, state television said.

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Something is going to be done about this. The United States can’t just sit back and let the killing continue, because obviously the rest of the world is waiting for us to do something. I wish that the rest of the world could take action without needing the US to join in, but that is unlikely.
If wishes were fishes, we’d eat ‘em. 

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