Commentary: Tillerson's magical thinking on Syria
by Rana B. Khoury, Los Angeles Times
Jan 29, 2018
3 minutes
In a speech at Stanford recently, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson outlined "the way forward" for the United States in Syria. He announced that the U.S. military would have an open-ended presence inside the country and envisioned a Syria free of Islamic State, Al Qaeda, Iran, weapons of mass destruction and President Bashar Assad. He also laid out a "new" strategy to achieve all this: Buttressed by its military, the U.S. will expend diplomatic energy on stabilization programs and
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