The Guardian, a British newspaper, received thousands of emails purportedly from the Assad family in Syria. We will have to wait until the authenticity of the emails is verified, but reading them is quite chilling. They portray a family completely out of touch with what is going on in Syria. The disconnect between a government and its people powerfully explains why the people of Syria have risked so much to change the government.
James Fallows, a defense analyst who writes for The Atlantic, has gone out on a limb and predicted that there will be no attack on Iran. His core argument, not made until the end of the essay, is that the Iranian matter was plumped up by Netanyahu to divert attention away from the Palestinian issue. His analysis is intriguing a worth a close read.
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