With or Without Us

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Author(s) Fareed Zakaria
Source Time
Date May 3, 2013
URL http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2142505,00.html
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Quotes-start.png Would U.S. intervention--no-fly zones, arms, aid to the opposition forces--make things better? It depends on what one means by better. It would certainly intensify the civil war. It would also make the regime of Bashar Assad more desperate. Perhaps Assad has already used chemical weapons; with his back against the wall, he might use them on a larger scale. As for external instability, Landis points out that if U.S. intervention tipped the balance against the Alawites, they might flee Syria into Lebanon, destabilizing that country for decades. Quotes-end.png


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This item takes a mixed stance on the position United States should intervene on the topic Syrian civil war.