Intervention in Syria and the Myth of the “Exit Strategy”
Intervention in Syria and the Myth of the “Exit Strategy” by Thomas M. Nichols. War on the Rocks
… When someone says “tell me how it ends,” it’s another way of saying: “I just don’t happen to like this particular case for intervention,” for whatever reason. I am not going to look too deeply into Munson’s motives here, and will take him at his word that he thinks that intervening in any way in Syria will do more harm than good. (“More harm than good,” by the way, is not the same as the “prospect for success” criterion.)…