Published: 15 April 2017
Last updated: 4 March 2024
For an Israeli government near Syria’s front lines, not all US military interventions are the same. Israeli officials’ public praise for the US cruise missile attack contrasts sharply with their privately expressed scepticism that Washington has carefully thought through its next steps in Syria.
And see:
The Assad family: nemesis of nine US presidents – Robin Wright – The New Yorker 11.04
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s first meeting with Syrian President Hafez al-Assad, in 1973, dragged on so long that the media began to speculate about whether America’s top diplomat had been kidnapped. The marathons were typical. In 1991, Secretary of State James Baker famously waved a white flag “in submission” after almost ten hours because he needed a bathroom break. Baker called negotiating with Assad “bladder diplomacy.”
‘A Shoah of the Syrian people’
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