The Costs of an Illegal Attack on Syria

Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Jack Goldsmith and Oona Hathaway explain at length why an attack on Syria would be illegal: Bottom line: If you support the coming air strike in Syria, you are supporting a rationale that allows the president to use air...

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An Appeal to James Mattis

I beseech you, sir, to consider the possibility that the supposed chlorine gas attack at Douma, Syria may have been a carefully constructed propaganda fraud on the part of the rebels encircled in Douma. Such a fraud would have as its purpose the elicitation of exactly...

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Welcome to Vietnam, Mr. President

From the Archives: As President Trump faces opposition from his generals to pull U.S. troops from Syria, here’s a look back to a similar fix another new president had gotten himself into, as Ray McGovern reported on March 28, 2009.I was wrong. I had been saying that...

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