Wednesday, March 04, 2009
Beware the Road to Damascus [Jonah Goldberg]
The indispensible Bret Stephens in the latest issue of Commentary:
Future historians of the Middle East will no doubt ponder how it was that Assad, inexperienced and brazen, managed to provoke the U.S., outrage world opinion, lose his stranglehold on Lebanon, risk war with Israel, have his nuclear ambitions exposed—and then emerge from it all in a comparatively strong position, with both Israel and the U.S. knocking on his door and seeking rapprochement. Was it luck or was it skill?
Read the whole thing for the answer.
03/04 01:09 PM
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