Obama's Syria Nightmare
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Journal
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Category
Time Magazine
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Publication Year
2013
Volume
2
Issue Type
Monthly
Issue Period
May 2013
Pages
8-9
Subject
History
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Abstract
FOR NEARLY TWO YEARS AFTER the Syrian uprising began, in March 2011, Barack Obama managed to keep his distance an Arab Spring revolution that seemed to promise him only trouble. The White House feared entanglement in another Iraq-style sectarian bloodbath and hasn't sure that whoever might replace Syrian dictator Bashar Assad would be an improvement. Now Syria has become impossible for Obama to ignore. That's partly because of a horrific death toll that has climbed past 70,000. But arguably more significant for the White House the growing fear that Assad's huge chemical-weapons arsenal poses a threat beyond its borders.
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