Should We Intervene in Syria? A Response to Anne-Marie Slaughter

Home > News > Should We Intervene in Syria? A Response to Anne-Marie Slaughter This is a guest post by former guest-blogger and University of Chicago political scientist Paul Staniland: ***** Anne-Marie Slaughter has a provocative op-ed in today’s New York Times calling for intervention in Syria. She argues that simply arming the opposition will trigger a proxy war. Instead, she advocates creating

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But let’s not pretend that her preferred strategy is something other than regime change through proxy war. This is a potentially very costly policy (as Marc Lynch points out), and its advocates ought to be forthright about the risks of escalation. Real debate isn’t advanced by delicate euphemism