From a reader: "After the defeat of Assad this FSA spokesman predicts a second 'sectarian'
war with the Alawite minority in Syria. One presumes
in this scenario that the FSA has both defeated Assad's relatively
powerful military and also routed Hezbollah. NYT is impressed with
his 'disarming candor' . NYT goes on to point out that the spokesman preparing
for a sectarian killing spree is in fact a believer in plurality, democracy, and
free speech. So not to worry.
[...] In Istanbul, Fahed Awad, a spokesman for one major Free Syrian Army
battalion, told me, with disarming candor, that it would probably take three
wars to complete the Syrian revolution — one to defeat Assad; then a sectarian
war within Islam between the Sunnis and Assad’s Shia sect, the Alawites; and
finally a fight over just how Islamic the new Syria should be. (Like most of the
opposition, he favors a more secular Islamic democracy, similar to Turkey’s.)" Link
