People seem fairly optimistic about the likelihood of Assad going down. I'm not so sure, for the reasons that Andrew Reynolds explains: That nation is poised on a knife edge: it could plunge into civil war or come to rest in a valley of repression...
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Well, this should be fun: Former Vice President Dick Cheney says in a new memoir that he urged President George W. Bush to bomb a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor site.
Global Post manages to interview a member of Assad's army. Fascinating, disturbing, very very interesting. Perhaps most interesting to me was the breakdown of how hierarchy operates in the Syrian.
I suspect that Eric Martin may be suggesting too much of a distinction here:ABC News is reporting today that General Petraeus has been pushing for a meeting with Syria's leadership but the Bush administration has refused...As Daniel Levy mentioned recently, Petraeus and Pentagon leadership have...
Via ID, it appears that the Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov is deploying from Murmansk to the Mediterranean. The expectation seems to be that she will operate (at least for.