MAINTAINING POWER OVER A WASTELAND OF RACK AND RUIN… (…and destroying whatever claims to sovereignty it ever had over it) The indiscriminate bombing and shelling used to drive rebel forces from Aleppo is just one more demonstration that the Assad
sovereignty
IF IT’S A NO-STRATEGY STRATEGY… (…it makes it seem like Nero’s fiddling while Rome burned…) After three useless ventures as nation-building artistes in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya, with less than glorious outcomes, America now faces the prospect of yet another
ANOTHER DIPLOMATIC EQUIVALENT OF ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION (… while trying to make out as a hot date in…Switzerland) The international community finally decided that the situation in Syria has become too dangerous to ignore any longer; and, despite its own conflicting