Compare the actions of the West in Syria to what we see in Libya and take a guess what is different between the two countries. The Libyan adventure now appears to be settling in to a protracted military engagement, like the others. Maybe it won't last for a decade, but it is hardly the walk in the park that many suspected at the beginning. Al Jazeera:
Syrian government forces are being blamed for the deaths of more than 1,000 civilians in a nine-week crackdown on nationwide anti-government demonstrations.
Amar Qurabi, head of the Egypt-based National Organisation for Human Rights, said on Tuesday that his group has documented the names of 1,062 people killed since mid-March, along with the locations of where they died.
He also said more than 10,000 people have been arrested by authorities during the protests.
Meanwhile, Sawasiah, a Syrian human rights organisation, said on Tuesday that it had the names of 1,100 people who it reported were killed mostly in the southern Hauran Plain region, where the uprising first erupted.
