February 8, 2012

Syria and the UN: A Foreign Policy Success

Democracy in America, Democracy in America

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NOWHERE near enough attention is being paid to the way the diplomacy around the Syrian civil war is playing out. Nowhere near enough. The other day I noted that nothing had made me as pessimistic about development aid as the endgame of our failed intervention in Afghanistan.

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