By Robert Moore, RealClearDefense: “Tracing its troubled history from the downfall of the Ottoman Empire and the much-maligned Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916, the Syrian state over the past century has existed as a nonsensical mixture of historically antagonistic groups forced to live under the same government through external policing or internal authoritarians.”
https://www.hudson.org/research/14380-protecting-america-from-a-bad-deal-ending-u-s-participation-in-the-nuclear-deal-with-iran
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