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…ade possible by the deep uneasiness in the Obama administration with moves that might destabilize the Assad regime. The Syrians are good judges of their adversaries’ weaknesses, and what they see in Washington is a president who prefers the Assads to the possibility of chaos. The...

… on Arab Revolutions TJP summary: Plenty of different opinions on what was done right and wrong. No consensus. Indyk: syria will spill into Bahrain and KSA (Saudi). We should have moved earlier. KSA is a BFD. Feaver (ex Bush): BO's obsession w anti Bush (especially wrt Iraq) h...

…ey're heading for the exits. Not the Destroyer and Rebuilder of Worlds Surprise, surprise: There was scant mention of Syria in the president's speech -- just one throwaway line about supporting Syria's opposition. Obama did not disengage from Iraq and Afghanistan only to plunge...

… and Saudi Arabia and others likely face. Europe was believed to be at less risk, although as the flow of refugees from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan increased, that risk has risen. The US and everywhere else were thought to be tertiary targets, subject to opportunistic attacks bu...

5 freedom, independence, and sovereignty -- at the hand of a foreign power, namely Iran. The Syrian uprisings may have already deepened the sectarian divide in Lebanon, raising once more the specter of civil war and making more difficult the task of forming a new government, a j...

…ticle 4. The National Interest Foreign-Policy Failure Dimitri K. Simes Article 5. NYT Cheney Says He Urged Bush to Bomb Syria in ’07 Charlie Savage Article 6. Ma'an News Agency Palestine and Statehood: An historical overview Abdullah Abueid Article 1. Scientific American Is M...

…it faces only a narrow strip of populated area east of the Jordan. To the north, there is a maritime commercial entity. Syria operating alone, forced through the narrow gap of the Mount Hermon-Galilee line and operating on extended supply lines, can be dealt with readily. There i...

… would, as a side effect, make it simple for children in London to connect with, learn from and then join terrorists in Syria – would you have thought that wise? The optimistic bumper sticker of our age – that any disruption is good disruption – marks a wonderful feature of the A...

…tical change. If you wanted to construct a more vulnerable target in a laboratory, you couldn't have done much better. Syria presents a profoundly different situation. U.S. policy has always been driven by the hope that the Assads would change and the fear of what might replace...

…t released a Snowden document that t cited a NSA intercept of Israeli military communications about an Israeli raid in Syria on August 1, 2008. It revealed that in it a group of Israeli commandos killed General Suleiman, a top aide to President Assad who had been working with...

…ail.com; Subject: Middle East Update - May 25-31, 2011 Sent: 6/1/2011 10:47:23 PM Middle East Update May 25-31, 2011 Syria International pressure on Damascus is mounting. After the US imposed sanctions on the Syrian leadership earlier in May, the EU foreign ministers agreed t...

16 If only the Syrians could be brought around, presidents have believed for generations, life would be so much easier. The United States wasn't alone in this illusion -- the Israelis, Arabs, Europeans, and Russians felt the same way. Like the Wall Street banks, Syria was then,...

… that’s made it tough to hire baristas and make a go of the old-fashioned coffee house. MORE... Risk ofincident above Syria ‘significantly increased’ a Russia pulled out of an agreement designed to use an exchange of information to <<< minimize the risk of in-flight incidents...

…zed this kind of low-level intelligence could never address the real need for Israel: to ensure we had early warning if Syria or Lebanon, Jordan or Egypt, were preparing to go to war against us. He began toying with the idea of training a small force of Israeli soldiers to go on...

… bent on its destruction. So where can the White House turn if it wants some kind of peace process in the Middle East? Syria. After all, in his first term as prime minister, back in 1998, Benjamin Netanyahu did authorize indirect negotiations with Syria. And the [DF—and especial...