The Gathering Storm in Syria

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Originally Posted by piercehawkeye45

Fareed Zakaria gives a historical perspective of why the US should not intervene in Syria. The argument is that Syria closely resembles Lebanon and Iraq where all three countries had (colonial installed) minority ruling regimes. In both Lebanon and Iraq, decade long civil wars broke out and he doesn’t expect Syria to be any different, whether the US intervenes or not. In this case, the US cannot stop the violence; we can just influence who is on the receiving end…

I really enjoyed that video. I think Fareed Zakaria is pretty sharp.

I also really enjoyed this series of counter-points, via Ta Nehisi Coates:

http://www.theatlantic.com/internati...istory/276797/

Apparently there's a lot of historical context that he glosses hard, in giving the historical context.