Trump pulls the plug in Syria

Every once in a while Pres Trump manages to get something right. This time it is the decision to call off the broad U.S. covert assistance to the Syrian opposition forces fighting against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Assad has been notoriously brutal in putting down the armed rebellion against...

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Published in:The Washington report on Middle East affairs 2017-10, Vol.36 (6), p.24-25
Main Author: Fuller, Graham E
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Assad, Bashar Al
Politics
Syrian refugees
Trump, Donald J
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Summary:Every once in a while Pres Trump manages to get something right. This time it is the decision to call off the broad U.S. covert assistance to the Syrian opposition forces fighting against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Assad has been notoriously brutal in putting down the armed rebellion against his regime. Well over 300,000 Syrians have died on all sides, at least a million made homeless. For the West, the flight of Syrian refugees has shaken the very core of the EU political order, threatening to create a xenophobic backlash--which only by dint of good European political common-sense they have so far largely avoided. Washington never had good choices. It has sought to overthrow the Assads--father and son--for decades as one of the few states resistant to Israeli hegemony and as a strong force of anti-Western Arab nationalism, especially when the West was trying to overthrow them.
ISSN:8755-4917
2163-2782