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…ger of the kind that everyone knew would surely come. Still, these were chemical weapons launched by a repeat offender, Bashar al-Assad. In any other presidency, such an atrocity would command a considered and, ideally, skillful response. Obama’s consideration had in fact been le...

…’s security. Like it or not, the military option most unpopular with America’s voters and politicians may be its best. Bashar Assad may well be our only hope in fighting the various terrorist factions that are attempting to form an ISIS state. If America agrees that putting boot...

…e refused to say whether we’d had anything to do with an attack. As we he had hoped, this allowed the Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, both the space and a good reason to deny that it had ever happened, deny that he’d been trying to make a nuclear weapon, and thus feel no compe...

the Assad clan still controls enough military and financial assets to continue its rule-by-massacre strategy.

arguing that President Assad believes in reforming the system and is

Hezbollah thus also wants al Assad to survive.

but there will be no such agreements with the Palestinians or with Syria in the foreseeable future. The Palestinians have taken themselves out of the game for now. We cannot turn from them to the Syrians while Assad’s troops are using howitzers and sniper rifles against his peopl...

Mr Assad’s regime is much less likely to fall than that

while Mr Assad remains relatively popular

in attempting to bring Assad's current domestic

we received word that Assad wanted me to meet directly

which Assad's tanks attacked in early August and

at present Mr Assad remains the least worst

or fundamentalists. Then President Assad tried to defuse the

/ BARAK / 28 The next key moment in the campaign involved something I did not do. This time, the Israeli television debate came earlier in the campaign, a month before the election. Bibi, Yitzhik Mordechai and I were all invited, as the three main candidates. But I told the TV p...