Assad plunging Syria into civil war

According to UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping, Hervé Ladsous, the 15-month uprising in Syria has now turned into a full-blown civil war. Syria is sinking into savagery while the international community looks on passively, complains the liberal-conservative business paper Il Sole 24 Ore: "Can international diplomacy, which from Moscow to Washington is frantically putting together a list of invitees to a new major Syria conference, continue to look on impassively faced with the tragedy unfolding and the eye-witness accounts [of child soldiers]? … When they fall, authoritarian regimes drag down with them not just political systems - in the case of Syria the president's Alawite clan and the Ba'ath Party - but also annul the rules that govern human coexistence. … This is precisely what is happening now in Assad's Syria, where perhaps all solutions for ending the bloody anarchy come too late. … The UN peace plan is increasingly being exposed as a useless diplomatic gesture." 

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