أنان: خطتنا في سوريا ليس فرصة مفتوحة بل فرصة اخيرة لتجنب الحرب الاهلية

Assad has no where to go once he is deposed in Syria. This is why no one should expect him or his gang to voluntarily step down.
They will fight even if they have to destroy all of Syria because they have no escape.
Unless there are some serious external military actions against the regime the fight in Syria will drag and will divert from a freedom movement to becoming a sectarian conflict.

Really? One has not already started? Annan has only given Assad some running room to kill off more Syrians before they can get funded and armed to end his murderous regime.
There is no moral equivalency between the use of force to commit murder and the use of force to stop a murderer. The former is criminal and the latter is justifiable homicide.
Those who seek to draw an equivalency malign the Syrian Opposition and provide justification for the inexcusable acts of genocide and crimes against humanity that have become the order of the day for the Assad Regime.
When the international media start reporting that Syrian casualties have exceeded 10,000 deaths, then there will be action. In reality, the casualty toll is probably 15k but is reported at 9k and holding. All life, particularly the lives of those seeking freedom, is precious. It should not take 10,000+ Syrian lives to justify the response that a scratch on the leg of an Israeli child would provoke.

Give up the charade Annan. Maybe the gave you one last change. But even with 300,000 observers you can't stop a psychopathic mass muderer.

The problem in our Middle East is that the great majority of the population are either religious fanatics or autocratic in nature. Moderation and true mental cultivation are a rarity. So what is happening is that after every change the victims of the past become the oppressors of the future. It will take a miracle to have a Government for the people that protects the rights of all..... but miracles sometimes do happen, so I will keep my fingers crossed hoping for one.

with all my respect for Annan, civil war will not happen in Syria unless he knows that the super powers are aiming for this to happen. foe annan's memory and noting, syria is almost entirely Sunni with scattered minorities that live side by side with their fellow Sunnis. Civil wars happen when there is split numbers like in lebanon. syria will not be the same again. Syria will wither be dominated by Assad if he succeeds in crashing his opponents which I doubt it, or will become democratic. The Syrian are not like the Lybiyan; they are rational people and have many of their citizens who made it big abroad. Syria could become a country of great importance if governed democratically. Likewise, Syria and Lebanon could regain their dominance in the ME after Syria becomes democratic.