Poking a tinderbox
BY ALEXANDER PANETTA
THE CANADIAN PRESS ON APRIL 7, 2017
NEW YORK – Somebody once said attacking Syria could start the Third World War. That it was a terrible idea, that strikes required congressional approval, and that there might be dark political purposes for the president attempting such folly: boosting poor poll numbers ...
... Will it affect the Syrian civil war? ... Marc Lynch .. in the Washington Post .. called the strike on a single airbase one of the smallest military moves Trump could possibly have made ...
Then there’s the Russia question. The Assad regime – detested by vast swaths of Syrian society, hailing from a minority Alawite sect, resented by the region’s Sunnis – has always had a friend in Moscow ...
The Americans says they gave the Russians a head-up before cruise missiles started raining in, to let them clear out. But on Friday, the Russians professed to being livid ...
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