Richard Haass, a central figure in the US defence and foreign policy establishment, effectively endorses Russian intervention in Syria.
Haass says the US and Russia have a shared interest in checking the rise of the Islamic State, followed by a negotiated settlement "which would ease Assad out of power and establish a successor government that, at a minimum, enjoyed the support of his Alawite base and, ideally, some Sunnis." https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/testing-putin-syria-military-intervention-by-richard-n--haass-2015-10 _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
