David Ignatius of the Washington Post is an op-ed writer with a wide network of contacts. His most recent piece essentially says that Israel will attack Iran sometime this year (he leaves himself some wiggle-room). There is an increasing sense of inevitability in this very long sequence of articles over the last year. The orchestration of the news has been remarkable in leading many to this conclusion.
A very good answer to my question about why Russia is defending Syria against UN action was provided by Daniel Treisman, a political scientist at UCLA. I wonder what signs will persuade the Kremlin that Assad’s days are numbered.
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