Syria Is Not Iraq

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Author(s) Bill Keller
Source The New York Times
Date May 5, 2013
URL http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/06/opinion/keller-syria-is-not-iraq.html
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Quotes-start.png A failed Syria creates another haven for terrorists, a danger to neighbors who are all American allies, and the threat of metastasizing Sunni-Shiite sectarian war across a volatile and vital region. “We cannot tolerate a Somalia next door to Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Turkey,” said Vali Nasr, who since leaving the Obama foreign-policy team in 2011 has become one of its most incisive critics. Quotes-end.png


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