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Is It Time To Just Let Assad Win?
A regime victory is now the least bad outcome for Syria and the world. It’s cost over 100,000 dead, with millions languishing in refugee camps and swaths of ancient cities heartbreakingly destroyed by all
Read More »Obama’s Hypocrisy: Chemical Weapons Are Bad, But Drones Are Acceptable
President Obama made an address on September 10th to the nation of Syria. The first point of criticism is that the speech is over-dramatic and theatrical – it just seems so obviously rehearsed. Obama
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Endgame In Syria: 3 Scenarios Nobody Wanted
Too much blood has been spilled for a negotiated settlement acceptable to all sides. There’s now only three shows in town for a broken Syria Assad Victory Inconceivable as it may have seemed at
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Syria: Over 100,000 dead, too little too late?
Syrian rebel groups have claimed Assad forces launched a chemical attack on Wednesday 21st August in Eastern Ghouta resulting in more than 1,000 deaths. Medecins Sans Frontieres says the victims are suffering from symptoms which indicate mass exposure to neurotoxic agent. Yet the Syrian authorities have
Read More »Syria: The Water Remains Muddy
With the situation in Syria turning to chemical weapons, the international community are finally taking action. Last week President Obama finally spoke out and announced what Britain and France already knew, that the Assad
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Egypt cuts off all diplomatic ties with Syria – What does this mean for the region’s security?
In front of a packed audience in Cairo, Egypt’s president Mohammed Morsi announced that his government would be shutting down the Syrian embassy in Cairo and sending all Syrian diplomats home. Morsi also announced
Read More »The UK’s aid in Syira
By Rachel Auld Syria is situated, as most of us know next to some very hostile countries and the crisis in the country has had a knock-on effect in Lebanon and Israel. A country
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Syria, And Obama’s Self-Inflicted Dilemma
Damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t, Obama has backed himself into a corner over Syria’s chemical weapons The carnage in Syria shows little sign of abating, with reports of a new massacre
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