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Italy has pulled its ambassador out of Damascus to protest the Syrian crackdown, but other countries have not. The Obama administration is inching its way toward calling for the Syrian leader, Bashar al-Assad, to step down, but has not yet done so. The U.N. Security Council has condemned the Syrian crackdown, but Lebanon, the only Arab nation on the 15-member council, withheld its support.

Such is the international cacophony that has greeted Assad’s decision to send in tanks against his own people in Hama.

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