The Depravity Factor

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/03/opinion/03brooks.html?scp=2&sq=david%20brooks&st=cse

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From: barry levine 
Date: Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 3:14 PM
Subject: re: The Depravity Factor
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

    The Assad regime continues to visit horrors on the people of Syria. Until it is toppled, much will not be right in that part of the world. The governments of Israel and Syria will remain formally at war as they have for 63 years. That can in no way absolve Israel from  making peace with the Palestinians.  The Syrian people deserves a better government and I hope that that government will finally negotiate a peace with Israel.  But ousting Bashar al-Assad will no more bring peace to the region than did ousting Saddam Hussein. That will require leadership on the Israeli side as well.

Barry Levine