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Beware the Road to Damascus
The Corner on National Review Online —
... ] The indispensible Bret Stephens in the latest issue of Commentary: Future historians of the Middle East will no doubt ponder how it was that Assad, inexperienced and brazen, managed to provoke the U.S., outrage world opinion, lose his stranglehold on Lebanon, risk war with Israel, have his nuclear ambitions exposed and then emerge from it all in a comparatively strong position, with both Israel and the U.S. knocking on his door and seeking rapprochement. Was it luck or was it skill? Read the whole thing for the answer. ...
BRET STEPHENS: The Syria Temptation and Why Obama Must Resist It….
Instapundit —
BRET STEPHENS: The Syria Temptation and Why Obama Must Resist It.
Why not negotiate with Assad
Israel Matzav —
... Former JPost editor Bret Stephens has a lengthy article in the current issue of Commentary in which he recounts the history of Israeli (and American) negotiations with Syria and suggests that either country engaging with the Syrians is not a great idea (Hat Tip: ...
Why be serious about Syria?
Yourish.com —
... between the United States and Syria, Bret Stephens warns that Syria really offers nothing to the United States, and that the U.S. engages Bashar Assad at its own peril. Obviously, read the whole thing, but these two paragraphs illustrate who the United States seeks to deal with: ...
Stuart Whatley: Understanding Syrian Rapprochement: Optimists Versus Cynics
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... In response to Indyk's sanguine silver lining perspective, one notable cynic, the Wall Street Journal's Bret Stephens, has responded, well, cynically...: "Put simply, while the peace process expanded Hafez Assad's options, the same process reduced Israel's. That goes double for his son, who would enter into a peace process with his father's achievements as a baseline from which to seek further concessions. Indyk may believe that the mere resumption of a process without a serious expectation of a peace deal is some sort of achievement, but he fails to consider ...
Hugh Hewitt: The Iranian Presidential Election and the Syrian Gambit
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
... , and shows Khamenei and Ahmadinejad meeting with Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari.) Ahmadinejad's defeat would not herald an era of "reform" in Iran. Every account of the presidential election that fails to note this basic, undeniable fact is at best incomplete. By contrast, Bret Stephens comprehensive overview of U.S.-Israel-Syrian relations in the latest issue of ...
Hugh Hewitt: The Iranian Presidential Election and the Syrian Gambit
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog —
... , and shows Khamenei and Ahmadinejad meeting with Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari.) Ahmadinejad's defeat would not herald an era of "reform" in Iran. Every account of the presidential election that fails to note this basic, undeniable fact is at best incomplete. By contrast, Bret Stephens comprehensive overview of U.S.-Israel-Syrian relations in the latest issue of ...
DIA Does Diplomacy?
Weekly Standard Blog —
... (5) We’ve tried this before (the United States, not the DIA) -- accommodate Syria “significantly” in a deal with Israel that is. As Bret Stephens reminds us at Commentary, that did not go so well. ...
