by BRUCE JENTLESON for DEUTSCHE WELLE on MAY 16, 2013: Worse than not learning from history, is drawing the wrong lessons. The Iraq and Afghanistan wars carry lessons for the US and its allies in Syria. We just need to get it right, writes Bruce W. Jentleson. In a nutshell, there are two important lessons to [...]
by JOSHUA LANDIS for MONDOWEISS (FACEBOOK RESPONSE) on MAY 8, 2013: Joshua Landis is a leading opponent of U.S. intervention in Syria. Last week we did a post faulting NPR’s Melissa Block for bringing up Landis’s marriage to an Alawite woman during an interview with him and Andrew Tabler of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. [...]
by MELISSA BLOCK (Q & A with JOSHUA LANDIS and ANDREW TABLER ) on NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO “ALL THINGS CONSIDERED” on MAY 1, 2013: This week President Obama said it was important to remain prudent in coming to conclusions about chemical weapons use within Syria, something he said could change the nature of U.S. involvement [...]
by ANDREW HAMMOND for OPEN DEMOCRACY on APRIL 25, 2013: Tension with its Gulf neighbours began to rise from 2006 when Qatar and Al Jazeera stood with Lebanese Shi’ite group Hizbullah during its war with Israel, while western allied states clearly hoped to see the Iranian-backed militia wiped out. Secular activists and politicians in Egypt [...]
by FRANCES S. HASSO for ISLAMiCommentary on APRIL 23, 2013: Last month I attended the World Social Forum (WSF) – my first – in Tunis, the capital of Tunisia. I study social movements and teach about the WSF and the very different and more established annual scrum of the powerful in Davos — [...]
Peter Feaver: Syria Weapons News May Prompt Change to White House Policy
by JULIE POUCHER HARBIN, EDITOR, ISLAMiCommentary on APRIL 25, 2013: According to an assessment signed by White House director of the office of legislative affairs Miguel Rodriguez, which was sent to lawmakers earlier Thursday (April 25) ”Our intelligence community does assess, with varying degrees of confidence, that the Syrian regime has used chemical weapons on a small [...]
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