US 'Interests' and Syria

Sep 17, 2013

∙ Paid

Thank you, neoisolationists and peaceniks. It looks like you have accomplished the seemingly impossible: get Obama to tacitly support a brutal dictator against both a popular uprising and US interests.

A lot of realist commentators, most notably, Stephen Walt at Harvard, claim that the United States has no “vital interest” at stake in Syria. This is true…

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