Note from the Publisher: This piece belongs to the Merion West Legacy series, referring to articles and poems published between 2016 up to Spring 2025.

Thomas Friedman, Barack Obama, and the Longstanding Tumult in Syria

Thomas Friedman, Barack Obama, and the Longstanding Tumult in Syria
(Reuters/Omar Sanadiki)

“Had Obama intervened strongly enough in 2013, Syria could have been his Bosnia, a long-running humanitarian disaster that a U.S. president halted after initially dragging his feet.”

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