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ANALYSIS
“In the case of Ghouta, the message the regime was articulating—loudly and clearly—was that henceforth no pocket of resistance would be tolerated, and that the only way out for its enemies was unconditional surrender. Indeed, what it intended on making abundantly clear to the rebels—and any civilians living around them—was that there was no one to call upon to rescue them,” writes Chatham House’s Haid Haid.
“[Trump’s] sole metric for success is defeating the Islamic State—though the vast majority of Syrian civilians were killed by Mr. Assad’s forces,” CFR’s Janine di Giovanni writes for the New York Times.
“Since taking a victory lap for his cruise-missile strike [on a Syrian base last year], Trump has left Assad, along with his Russian and Iranian backers, undisturbed to continue their meticulous work of mass murder,” CFR’s Max Boot writes for the Washington Post.
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