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Nothing says something more clearly than cruise missiles 27 Aug 2013 | 06:25 am
Once again the “something must be done” brigade has taken charge. The cruise missiles being readied for strikes against targets unspecified in Syria will carry the message of “accountability.” CBS New...
How the use of chemical weapons ‘becomes very tempting’ 27 Aug 2013 | 06:22 am
Reuters reports: [D]iplomats and rebels interviewed by Reuters said Assad’s generals had been trying for some time to push the rebel units back to the southern ring road that separates Damascus from i...
More questions than answers as attack on Syria looms 26 Aug 2013 | 08:23 pm
Zvi Bar’el writes: “When you have to shoot, shoot. Don’t talk,” says Eli Wallach’s character in “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.” But he also says, “If you miss, you had better miss very well.” It see...
The dehumanizing effect of opposing war 26 Aug 2013 | 08:21 pm
Yes, you read that right: The dehumanizing effect of opposing war. Say what? A vast amount has been written on the dehumanizing effects of war — essays, commentary, treatises and works of literature m...
France says would be hard to bypass U.N. in action against Syria 26 Aug 2013 | 08:19 pm
Reuters reports: France’s foreign minister said on Monday no decision had been made yet on whether to take military action against Syria, but doing so outside the auspices of the U.N. Security Council...
Britain says Syria response possible without unanimous U.N. backing 26 Aug 2013 | 08:17 pm
Reuters reports: British Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Monday it would be possible to respond to chemical weapons use in Syria without the unanimous backing of the United Nations Security Co...
Syria attack may force search for peace 26 Aug 2013 | 08:15 pm
Jim Muir writes: As happened in Iraq, intervention by the West risks fragmenting the country further, creating an uncontrollable situation and handing large parts of it to forces it regards as its ene...
Syrian Kurds trek to Iraq over parched hills 26 Aug 2013 | 08:12 pm
Reuters reports: Mariam Bozan Khalil spent days avoiding Syrian rebel militiamen on the road to Iraq, only to be forced to finish her journey on foot through sun-scorched hills. She is one of more tha...
CIA files prove America helped Saddam as he gassed Iran 26 Aug 2013 | 07:19 am
Shane Harris and Matthew M. Aid write: The U.S. government may be considering military action in response to chemical strikes near Damascus. But a generation ago, America’s military and intelligence c...
Chemical attack spurs finger-pointing inside Assad regime 26 Aug 2013 | 01:39 am
The National reports: United Nations weapons inspectors will today examine the site of a chemical weapons attack in Damascus that killed hundreds, as the first signs of finger-pointing inside the Assa...
