Max Fisher, VOX: Unfixable: How Obama lost Syria
uly 18, 2012, almost a year to the day into Syria's civil war, was also the day when it looked closest to ending. The rebels, at that point still mostly local volunteers and defected Syrian soldiers, had pushed into the capital city of Damascus. Amateur videos showed them storming a military base as they spread through surrounding suburbs.
In the city's heart, a suicide bomber infiltrated a meeting of top regime officials, killing the defense minister, a top general, and the powerful brother-in-law of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad. Even Sergei Lavrov, the foreign minister of Russia, then Assad's most important ally, acknowledged that "the battle for the capital, the decisive fight" was underway.
Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- November 3, 2015
Israel, Iran, Syria, and Obama: Now what? -- Danny Vinik, Politico
Deeper involvements and higher costs in fight against Islamic State -- Peter Van Buren, Reuters
The Obama Way of War: Special Ops, Syria and History -- James Jay Carafano, National Interest
Are Kurds closer to realizing their dream of an independent state? -- Dominique Soguel, CSM
The Russian, Iranian, Hezbollah military triangle -- Ali Rizk, Al-Monitor
How Ahmad Chalabi Survived His War for Iraq -- Eli Lake, Bloomberg
Why the West should worry about Turkey -- Peter Marino, Reuters
A difficult era awaits Turkey on foreign policy -- Serkan Demirtas, Hurriyet Daily News
North Korea: Purges, Missiles, and Nukes -- John McLaughlin, The Cipher
Taiwan's South China Sea Headache -- Shannon Tiezzi, The Diplomat
Ukraine; A Lull in the East -- John Herbst, American Interes
Russians to Putin: We Won’t Forget Stalin’s Crimes -- Anna Nemtsova, Daily Beast
How Merkel Survives a Revolt Over Migrants -- Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg
Merkel Under Fire as Refugee Crisis Worsens -- Spiegel Online
What Brought Down the Russian Plane? -- Marina Koren, The Atlantic
Prescription Drugs on the Rise: Estimates Suggest 60 Percent of Americans Take at Least One Medication -- Jessica Firger, Newsweek
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