An excerpt from, "The Syrian Crisis and America’s Counterproductive Quest for Middle Eastern Hegemony" by Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett, September 13, 2013.
Earlier this week, before President Obama’s September 10 address on Syria and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s proposal to place Syria’s chemical weapons under international control, Hillary used a CNN interview, see here, to go beyond near-term analysis of unfolding developments and examine what the Syria crisis says about America’s current standing in international affairs—and how the choices Washington makes regarding Syria will have enormous consequences for America’ strategic trajectory moving forward.Source: CNN.
