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On Syria: Thank you, Russia!
By Stephen Kinzer FEBRUARY
13, 2016 – BOSTON GLOBE
Once again, Moscow has shown itself better
able to make strategic choices than we are. Russia is not an ideal partner for
the United States, but sometimes its interests align with ours. In those cases,
we should drop our Cold War hostility and work with Russia. The best place to
start is Syria.
American policy toward Syria
was misbegotten from the start of the current conflict five years ago. By
immediately adopting the hardest possible line—“Assad must go”—we removed any
incentive for opposition groups to negotiate for peaceful change. That helped
propel Syria into its bloody nightmare.
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