Tag / assad
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The Middle East In The 2020s
As the Middle East enters the last year of this decade, it has completed what could be the worst epoch in its history. Oxford Professor Eugene Rogan, in The Arabs: A History, talks about the feeling of humiliation present in the Arab world following a series of events. The defeat of Iraq in the First…
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The Second Syrian Civil War
[su_pullquote align=”right”]Assad will win his war by 2020.[/su_pullquote]Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will win his war by 2020. Iran and Russia, whose forces now constitute most of Assad’s armies, have successfully protected his regime and the Syrian statelet. Opposition forces—what’s left of them after the fall of Aleppo in December 2016—are disunited and weak. And the…
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The Cynical Case for Military Intervention in Syria
BY NAHUEL FEFER The humanitarian argument for intervention is strong, but often dismissed with the observation that the United States government is not a moral agent and obligated solely to its people. To some extent we all accept this premise, otherwise we would be outraged at the United States spending only .6% of the budget…
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A Strike Will Not Help the People of Syria
BY SONYA SCHOENBERGER Over the past week, media outlets have been glutted with experts delivering cogent, informed, and completely divergent policy advice about the benefits and risks of a US strike on Syria. There seems to be a significant risk that the US is on the verge of entering into yet another long, messy war…
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Syria: A First-Hand Look
At 7.30 tonight, Tuesday, February 28th, WUPR, along with our fellow co-hosts the Muslim Students Association, will be holding the Stories from Syria: Video Chatting with Syrian Citizens event in the DUC Fun Room. In case you do not know anything about the ongoing Syrian revolution, here’s a little lesson. Let me introduce you to…
