3 responses to “A Useful Primer on Syria”

1. 

   edmondo

   August 31, 2013 at 1:21 pm

   #10. Why the hell are we involved?
2. 

   Dave Schuler

   August 31, 2013 at 2:41 pm

   I think his answer to #3

   How did it all go so wrong in Syria?

   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.
3. 

   John Burgess

   August 31, 2013 at 4:29 pm

   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