Beirut, May 2 (ANI): The potential collapse of the Syrian regime could wreak havoc of a very different kind in the Middle East.
There is a view that the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime could unleash a cataclysm of chaos, sectarian strife and extremism that spreads far beyond its borders.
According to Washington Post, such an eventuality would threaten not only the entrenched rulers already battling to hold at bay a clamor for democratic change, but also the entire balance of power in the volatile region, analysts and experts said.
"If the regime collapses you will have civil war and it will spread throughout the region," engulfing Lebanon, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and beyond, the paper quoted Hilal Khashan, a professor of political science at the American University of Beirut, as saying.
Khasan added: "A collapse of the Syrian regime is a doomsday scenario for the entire Middle East."
Analyst Rami Khouri described Syria as the Middle East equivalent of a bank that's too big to be allowed to fail.
"The spillover effect would be too horrible to contemplate," he wrote in a commentary in Beirut's Daily Star.
In Syria, the army is so tightly bound to Assad's Alawite clan that the fall of the regime would almost certainly lead to its disintegration, setting the stage for an Iraq-style implosion in which the state collapses. (ANI)
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