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To all appearances, the leader of Syria is a person most people wouldn’t mind having as a neighbor.
President Obama’s pause for congressional approval before any military action against Syria is an extraordinary – perhaps a historic – pivot in American foreign policy.
The difficult position the United States and its allies are in as regards Syria arises from humanitarian concern not self-interest.