Fareed Zakaria: Obama’s Syria policy is full of contradictions - The Washington Post
Фарид Закария фактически против прямого вовлечения США в войну с Сирией. Хорошая статья, стоит почитать, в которой даются некоторые точки зрения других известных авторов. Думаю Дениел Дрезнер, мнение которого приводится в самом конце статьи, во многом прав в своих оценках того, что имеет место быть в Сирии. Во всяком случае я склонялся к такому же выводу.
Вынесу сюда для тех, кому "лень" читать всю статью. Daniel Drezner has arguedon his blog on ForeignPolicy.com that the new move “is simply the next iteration of the unspoken, brutally realpolitik policy towards Syria that’s been going on for the past two years. . . . [T]he goal of that policy is to ensnare Iran and Hezbollah into a protracted, resource-draining civil war, with as minimal costs as possible. This is exactly what the last two years have accomplished . . . at an appalling toll in lives lost.”
If this interpretation of the Obama administration’s behavior is correct, then the White House might well be playing a clever game - but it is Machiavellian rather than humanitarian.
Fareed Zakaria: Obama’s Syria policy is full of contradictions - The Washington Post
Вынесу сюда для тех, кому "лень" читать всю статью. Daniel Drezner has arguedon his blog on ForeignPolicy.com that the new move “is simply the next iteration of the unspoken, brutally realpolitik policy towards Syria that’s been going on for the past two years. . . . [T]he goal of that policy is to ensnare Iran and Hezbollah into a protracted, resource-draining civil war, with as minimal costs as possible. This is exactly what the last two years have accomplished . . . at an appalling toll in lives lost.”
If this interpretation of the Obama administration’s behavior is correct, then the White House might well be playing a clever game - but it is Machiavellian rather than humanitarian.
Fareed Zakaria: Obama’s Syria policy is full of contradictions - The Washington Post