Syria Audio Analysis: While US Congress Debates, Assad Regime Goes on the Offensive / Scott Lucas – EAworlddview
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Take-away points:
1. “This window that the regime got after President Obama backed away from Saturday — they’re trying to use that to push the insurgents out of key areas. That means not only hitting insurgents but hitting civilians.”
2. “If you are going to intervene, don’t do it half-heartedly. There is no in-between in this situation.”
3. “The problem is that there is no one single opposition, there are many oppositions. And with each day, the situation gets more and more complex and the decision gets tougher to make.”
4. “The level on information on Syria in America has been depressingly low so far.”
(Featured Photo: East Ghouta near Damascus — the site of chemical weapons attacks on August 21 — last week)
About the Author – Scott Lucas Scott Lucas is a professor of American Studies at the University of Birmingham and editor-in-chief of EA WorldView. He is a specialist in US and British foreign policy and international relations, especially the Middle East and Iran. Formerly he worked as a journalist in the US, writing for newspapers including the Guardian and The Independent and was an essayist for The New Statesman before he founded EA