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Syria: Too Big to Fail?
document IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030073.txt May 12, 2011 House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

Article 4. Foreign Policy Syria: Too Big to Fail? Aaron David Miller MAY 12, 2011 -- If you're a bit confused about U.S. President Barack Obama's passivity in the face of Syrian President Bashar al- Assad's brutal repression of domestic opposition, don't be. Syria isn't Libya...

reforms in the name of “nation building.” Yet the newly-installed
document IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031718.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

reforms in the name of “nation building.” Yet the newly-installed regimes owed their existence to denying freedoms that would rally dissidents to overthrow them. So the democratization America encouraged was doomed from the start. Then came the “abandon.” Time and time again, wh...

have an unrepresentative Parliament writing an unrepresentative
document IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030271.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

have an unrepresentative Parliament writing an unrepresentative Constitution,” argued Mohamed ElBaradei, the former international atomic energy czar who is running for president on a reform platform. “Because the Muslim Brotherhood is ready, they want elections first,” adds Osama...

regimes at a conference in Qatar that “the region’s foundations are
document IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024976.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

[9 regimes at a conference in Qatar that “the region’s foundations are sinking into the sand.” Within days, demonstrators filled Cairo’s Tahrir Square, a vibrant plea for greater freedom that swiftly spread to Jordan, Yemen, Bahrain, Oman, Libya, and eventually even Syria. But i...

based societies see not oppression in reasonably exercised authority
document IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032201.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

si based societies see not oppression in reasonably exercised authority but respect; they see lack of political power not as subjugation but as order. Of course, this is provided we are talking about a Deng or a Lee and not a Pol Pot. To be sure, Asian autocracies are not summa...

and seize an opportunity. Statesmanship and
document IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032163.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

and seize an opportunity. Statesmanship and leadership.. During the last three years we have been living through a geo political earthquake. The world order, which existed since the demise of the Ottoman Empire , is collapsing. The Arab Spring appears to have turned into an Isla...

afterthought, and that’s what stuck in people’s minds. That was a
document IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031906.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

si afterthought, and that’s what stuck in people’s minds. That was a mistake, because it kind of undermined the notion of democracy promotion, simply because it was connected to a very unpopular intervention. SHAFFER: Taking lessons from that, what can we do to promote democr...

these reform efforts. These leaders need and deserve active, engaged
document IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031721.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

these reform efforts. These leaders need and deserve active, engaged US support. Yet America’s recent retreat from the region, following clumsy attempts at nation building, has destabilized and discouraged its allies. Iran is supporting militias in Iraq, Syria and Yemen whose st...