The Russians are Coming!
14 September 2015
Washington
has been wrapped in confusion and indecision for years now in trying to
sort out just what its real objectives are in Syria. Its obsessive, and
ultimately failed goal of denying Iran influence in the Middle East has
notably receded with Obama’s admirable success in reaching a deal with
Iran on the nuclear issue and gradual normalization of Iran’s place in
the world.
But
while the Israel lobby and its Republican allies failed to block
Obama’s painstaking work in reaching that agreement, they now seem
determined to hobble its implementation in any way possible. This is
utterly self-defeating: unable to block Iran’s re-emergence they seem
determined to deny themselves any of the key payoffs of the
agreement—the chance to work with Iran selectively on several important
common strategic goals: the isolation and defeat of ISIS, a settlement
in Syria that denies a jihadi takeover, the rollback of...
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