A damaged vehicle is seen at Suleiman al-Halabi neighborhood after clashes between Free Syrian Army fighters and regime forces in Aleppo, Thursday, Sept. 27. George Ourfalian/Reuters
Intervention Won't Save Syria -- Gary C. Gambill, National Journal
The death toll in Syria has reached a threshold where outside parties are entitled to use force to protect the civilian population. But those who would intervene in ostensible pursuit of this noble objective have an obligation to ensure that, on balance, the patient benefits from the procedure. Whereas former president Bill Clinton can claim with some justification that "the burning of villages and killing of innocents was history" after NATO's 1999 intervention in Kosovo, achieving a positive balance sheet in Syria will be extraordinarily difficult.
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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials
Destroying Syria -- The Daily Star editorial
Prisoners of Bashar -- Michael Young, NOW Lebanon
Apocalyptic Talk Aside, Israel Has Dialed Down Its Threat to Bomb Iran — for Now -- Tony Karon
Providing a legal basis to attack Iran -- Jeffrey H. Smith and John B. Bellinger III, Washington Post
Japan and China’s 118-Year-Old Cage Fight -- James Gibney, Bloomberg
China's Comunist Party Congress: Q & A -- Malcolm Moore, The Telegraph
The U.S. And Morocco: What a Real Alliance Looks Like -- Michael J. Totten, World Affairs
Election in Georgia A Battle between Dictators and Dreamers -- Walter Mayr, Spiegel Online
The Troubles are over. So why is Northern Ireland still so unsettled? -- Jason Walsh, Christian Science Monitor
Latin America’s Tale of Two Crises -- Jorge G. Castañeda, Project Syndicate
The Hugo Chávez cult is over -- Francisco Toro, The Guardian
Kerry, Rice position themselves on Benghazi attack -- Josh Rogin, the cable/Foreign Policy
The President’s Speech -- Walter Russell Mead, The American Interest