About Steven L. Taylor
Steven L. Taylor is a retired Professor of Political Science and former College of Arts and Sciences Dean. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the co-authored
A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging since 2003 (originally at the now defunct Poliblog).
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#10. Why the hell are we involved?
I think his answer to #3
is really inadequate.
I think that without outside support, both for the Assad regime and rebel factions, the civil war in Syria would never have gotten off the ground.
A map that help ‘clarify’ the situation…
Thist is actually linked-to in the WaPo article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/files/2013/08/Levant_Ethnicity_lg-smaller1-zoom.jpg