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Syria

A purposeless, symbolic war

“Since World War II, very little that could be called genuinely humanitarian has resulted from American military intervention—not in Korea, certainly not in Vietnam, and not in Panama, Afghanistan, or the two Iraq wars and Libya.”

Waiting State

by Olivier Kugler,

Secretary of Nothing

by Andrew Cockburn,

John Kerry and the myth of foreign policy

Hitler and Other Syria-debate Low Points

by John R. MacArthur,

When the facts won’t convince the public to march into battle, politicians ramp up the rhetoric

On the Enemy as Criminal

by Lawrence Douglas,

Why can’t we indict Bashar al-Assad at the International Criminal Court?

Jim Webb on Why Congress Must Be Consulted on Foreign Policy

by Harper’s Magazine,

From the June 2013 issue

The Party of Wilson, Wiretaps, and War

by John R. MacArthur,

On the problems with Democratic interventions

Witness Projection

by Tristan McConnell,

How Ushahidi is mapping crises around the world

Regime Changes

by Lamis Omar,

From emails sent last year, purportedly to Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, by Lamis Omar, a Ph.D. student working as his translator. The emails were among hundreds recovered by WikiLeaks and…

No one looks the same

by Harper’s Staff,

Welcome to Free Syria

by Anand Gopal,

Meeting the rebel government of an embattled country