Posts Tagged: Assad Regime
The Obama Administration is Deluded About Syria
Predictably, President Obama's recent decision to provide additional nonlethal military aid to the opposition Syrian National Coalition and its military wing has pleased...
Classified State Department Cable: Assad Has Used Chemical Weapons
Foreign Policy - A secret State Department cable has concluded that the Syrian military likely used chemical weapons against its own people in a deadly...
Arab Spring — Where to?
The following interlinked assumptions are divorced from reality: the rising tide of the Islamist forces on the Arab Street is led by politically pragmatic and...
An Urgent Plan of Action for Syria
Aleppo - Syria's second-largest city, its commercial hub and an ancient heritage site - is under relentless assault. This siege follows what has been called...
Syria Could Attack Israel as a Diversion
It's been over 16 months since the "Arab Spring" first reached the shores of Syria. 16 months of gun battles, defections and condemnations ...
No Reconciliation With the Butcher Of Damascus
I cannot begin this article without first expressing my profound outrage about the behavior of the Western powers, Turkey, the Arab League, and Kofi Annan,...
Syria: Arguing for U.S. Inaction
Some thoughts on U.S. policy toward Syria on the occasion of the recently-ended "Friends of Syria" meeting in Tunisia: Since the end of the cold war,...
Assad Supporter Brawls on Live TV with Dissident (VIDEO)
As top diplomats from around the world debate how to move forward in pressuring Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to stop the killing of his people,...
