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Turkey-Syria earthquakes: How do we aid people under authoritarian regimes?

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The Lesson of 2013 Is to Draw Red Lines

I like foreign policy that is firm, but not macho and blinking gets into the macho thing. But let's be absolutely clear. Chemical weapons were used in the Syrian civil war by the Assad government. And not only is that illegal in international law and for which there wasn't proper accountability, but the US and others had said it was a quote unquote, red line. We should have gone in. That's what you're saying. Not to. Well, even there, I don't want to be pedantic, but gone in. What does that mean? There's a whole range of different arguments to do with the airfields that we use. Just not walked away from

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