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“Some of us looking at the conflict from the West have consistently underestimated the capacity for bloodshed in Syria to worsen, There’s a temptation to think, Well, it can’t get any worse. And yet repeatedly it has gotten worse. And I think there’s a lesson there. There’s no reason to believe this will be as bad as things get.”