The Coming Bloodbath in Syria -- Andrew L. Peek, The Fiscal Times
Barrel bombs are the new normal. These crude weapons are filled with TNT and dropped from Syrian government aircraft. On December 28th, they obliterated part of a market in Aleppo and killed at least 25 people, including children.
Their crudeness is useful—a more sophisticated weapon might blur the disastrous disconnect between Obama’s post-power fantasy of a foreign policy and the realpolitik knife-fight reality of the Syrian war. Already, this conflict has killed roughly as many people as did the Bosnian genocide, and there’s no relief in sight. Once Assad wins the war, the killing will only continue.
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COMMENTARIES, OPINIONS, AND EDITORIALS
Syrians cannot afford for next year to be like this year -- Jim Murphy, New Statesman
Syria and the banality of evil -- Michael Young, NOW
How al-Qaeda Changed the Syrian War -- Sarah Birke, New York Review Of Books
Al-Qaeda's Big Year -- Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Politico Magazine
It’s going to get bad fast between Israel and the US -- Lazar Berman, Times of Israel
Self-defense - Israel’s only option? -- Jagdish N. Singh, Jerusalem Post
Saudi Arabia Seeks to Extend Influence-Buying With Lebanon Arms -- Glen Carey and Donna Abu-Nasr, Bloomberg Businessweek
Iran, Turkey’s New Ally? -- Vali R. Nasr, New York Times
Brotherhood rightly branded terrorist -- Linda S. Heard, Gulf News
The rising tide of India-Japan relations -- Vivek Sengupta, Pragati
Japan's Abe Gets the Silent Treatment in China -- Adam Minter, Bloomberg
South Sudan must resolve ethnic conflicts to be a nation at peace -- Abdul Mohammed and Alex de Waal, Washington Post
Central African Republic needs international help -- Dieudonné Nzapalainga and Omar Kabine Layama, Washington Post
The South Sudan Clashes Are No Tribal War -- Valentino Deng, Daily Beast
The Volgograd bombs are a warning over Olympic excess -- Simon Jenkins, The Guardian
A Mission Gone Wrong. Why are we still fighting the drug war? -- Mattathias Schwartz, New Yorker
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