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August 28, 2012

Obama's Cruel Reaction to Syrian Massacres

Fouad Ajami, Bloomberg

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A swifter outcome to this fight for Syria would have been both a strategic and a moral imperative. The U.S. didn’t have to carry the burden alone. Turkey and the Sunni Arab states would have been assured that the U.S. was in this fight, as well. But Obama has only now chosen to speak out on Syria and to draw a line that the dictator in Damascus never intended to cross.

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