Are we headed to war in Syria?
- The media seems to be going all in on the chemical weapons “red line” justification.
- How close are we to moving to implement a no-fly zone?
- Hezbollah is the real Red Line.
- Drezner: realism trumps liberalism again.
- Behind yesterday’s UN Syrian Casualty Count.
- Sunni clerics call for jihad against Assad and Egyptian government says Egyptians have freedom to travel to Syria if they’d like.
Meanwhile:
- Did Erdogan blink?
- How the protests in Taksim Square have derailed Erdogan’s plans to transform Turkey into a presidential system.
This week in contested academic politics…
- AAUP asks who controls intellectual property rights in MOOCs?
- Everyone really does hate accrediting agencies.
- Does being an $%#@hole count against you in a tenure decision? Do we really have to ask this?
Yeah. I’ve noted how psyched the White House must be that they have (1) a red line, (2) that’s been crossed, and (3) isn’t nakedly geo-strategic. Because, you know, the timing of this couldn’t have anything to do with changing assessments of the battlefield balance after Hezbollah’s intervention.
My 15-year-old son’s first question this morning when he heard the linked NPR story was “That doesn’t make sense. We’ve known about chemical weapons for months, why now?” After about a two-second paus he concluded: “ah, Hezbollah.”