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19 Oct 2021

“They've got themselves in this terrible position where they're upholding a Syria foreign policy that's based on 10 years of bad assumptions and wrong analysis, which is that Assad [Bashar al-Assad] was going to fall. And how do you back away from that without losing face? You can't. You have to lose face at some level, and you have to hurt your allies that you've built up over 10 years.”

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US-based Syria expert who heads the Center for Middle East Studies at Oklahoma University
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