Roundup- SHAFR historians on Syria
This month in the New York Times, op-eds by SHAFR president Fredrik Logevall and by Jeremi Suri on Syria.
Logevall and Gordon M. Goldstein ask "Will Syria by Obama's Vietnam?", writing that
Mr. Obama, his supporters say, is a “gloomy realist” who has learned history’s lesson: that American military power, no matter how great in relative terms, is ultimately of limited utility in conflicts that are, at their root, political or ideological in nature.
