Syria Side Effects

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Author(s)	The Wall Street Journal editorial board
Source	The Wall Street Journal
Date	August 27, 2013
URL	http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324591204579035360893940826.html
Quote	When we and others urged Mr. Obama to form a coalition of the willing against Damascus in 2011, opponents declared that such intervention would cause Assad to use chemical weapons, while running the risk of empowering jihadists, destabilizing Jordan, and spreading Sunni-Shiite conflict to Iraq and Lebanon. All of those fears have become reality after Mr. Obama failed to act and ceded the advantage in the Syrian conflict to the malign influence of Iran and Russia.

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