So far, America has pushed back.
Audacious, risky, dangerous—and effective.
Sporadic airstrikes might not always be sufficient.
But the UN and the WHO remain complicit in Assad’s war crimes.
Divided, impoverished, and dominated by competing external powers.
And Berlin must get serious about confronting it.
More than ever, the various sides need Russia to moderate.
And the U.S. shows its willingness to use force.
Israel can show its enemies, and third parties, that it has both the will and the ability to fight and to win.
Understanding last week’s extensive airstrikes.
It has also coordinated terrorist attacks.
While the U.S. has tightened the noose of sanctions.
Iraq is more complex, but Lebanon may prove more dangerous.
One of Lebanon’s last armed Palestinian militias.