The Two Big Reasons Obama Might Strike Syria

Time: Bashar Assad may finally have gone too far. In the wake of the Syrian dictator’s suspected nerve-gas attack last week, escalating rhetoric from Washington, Europe and Israel suggests a growing consensus for a military strike in response. But given Barack Obama’s well-known aversion to becoming entangled in that country’s savage civil war, and a growing belief that a stalemate might best serve U.S. interests anyway, any attack on Syria is unlikely to signal the start of a major American intervention there. Instead, it would likely be in the service of a pair of abstract — but very important — principles.

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