Arm and Shame

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Author(s) Thomas Friedman
Source The New York Times
Date September 3, 2013
URL http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/04/opinion/friedman-arm-and-shame.html
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Quotes-start.png But the Sunnis are themselves divided between the pro-Western, secular Free Syrian Army, which we’d like to see win, and the pro-Islamist and pro-Al Qaeda jihadist groups, like the Nusra Front, which we’d like to see lose. That’s why I think the best response to the use of poison gas by President Bashar al-Assad is not a cruise missile attack on Assad’s forces, but an increase in the training and arming of the Free Syrian Army — including the antitank and antiaircraft weapons it’s long sought. Quotes-end.png


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This item argues for the position United States should intervene on the topic Syrian civil war.