It is hard to do better the day before a showdown in Syria than spending an hour with Joshua Landis and Ammar Abdulhamid of the Tharwa Foundation:
Landis has not been thinking the regime would crumble now. But these things are difficult to predict. Ammar is right that nonviolence is the way to go.
The Administration is weakening the United States. That is the only thing at which it…
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The simple fact is we were better off on January 19 than we are today.…