Syria will require more than cruise missiles

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Author(s) Eliot A. Cohen
Source The Washington Post
Date August 25, 2013
URL http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/syria-will-require-more-than-cruise-missiles/2013/08/25/8c8877b8-0daf-11e3-85b6-d27422650fd5_story.html
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Quotes-start.png A serious bombing campaign would have substantial targets — most plausibly the Syrian air force, the service once headed by Assad’s father, which gives the regime much of its edge over the rebels, as well as the air defense system and the country’s airports, through which aid arrives from Iran. But should the Obama administration choose any kind of bombing campaign, it needs to face some hard facts. Quotes-end.png


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