Time's Battleland: Would Assad’s Fall Limit the Nuclear Menace in the Middle East?
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 8:57AM
Thomas P.M. Barnett in Arab Spring, China, Iran, Middle East, Obama Administration, Time's Battleland, Turkey, US foreign policy, nuclear weapons

As Bashar Assad looks more internationally isolated by the day — and far more vulnerable to Western economic sanctions than uber-bad boy Iran — it behooves us to think through what general advantages accrue with his eventual fall. To date, most of the thinking has focused on Iran’s loss of its right-hand proxy in transmitting terror to Israel via Hamas and Hezbollah.

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