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Desperately seeking Pax Americana

As Russia and Iran plot to reshape the Middle East in their image, a neutered Obama sits on his hands

26 September 2015

9:00 AM

26 September 2015

9:00 AM

Remember this fateful sequence of events. It began on 21 August 2013, when Bashar al-Assad gassed 1500 of his own civilians. His deadly brother Maha al-Assad, and their Alawi loyalists, had just dumped a chemical cannonade in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta, full of civilians but allegedly controlled by Syrian rebels.

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