MESOP NEWS „ Must-Read On The Cipher Brief” – By (former) Ambassador Robert FORD
White House Warning to Syria Leaves Little “Wiggle Room” | Robert Ford, Former U.S. Ambassador to Syria
28 June 2017 – The Cipher Brief – “Coming publicly as [the warning] does, and coming from the White House as it does—if the Syrian government does actually use chemical weapons in the days ahead, they will have left themselves very little margin of maneuver except to deploy military force against Assad.”