Pain in the Assad

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Author(s) William Saletan
Source Slate
Date August 30, 2013
URL http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/frame_game/2013/08/a_military_strike_in_syria_doesn_t_have_to_save_the_people_it_just_has_to.html
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Quotes-start.png Nobody wants another Iraq. Iraq is why we don’t trust our intelligence agencies when they tell us Assad used chemical weapons. Iraq is why we dread another invasion. But our mistakes in Iraq also conceal the perils of the road not taken. What would have happened if Saddam’s defiance of the U.N. inspectors had gone unpunished? What would other regimes have concluded about the world’s willingness to police the development and use of weapons of mass destruction? Quotes-end.png


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