POL SCI 139 Lecture 20: Bordenkircher Lec 10.2
2 Dec 2016
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Public support, coming out of economic crisis, military resources, precedent of non-intervention (others using chemical weapons), waiting and seeing. Waiting and seeingconsequences: support fades, people are dying. Obama"s response to the use of chemical weapons. Obama eventually utilizes russia to remove chemical weapons. Believes they prevent it from coming to lebanon. Attacks syrian refugees, al nusra > covers the ground while the regime bombs from the air. Supporting an ally, prevent spillover, issue of proximity. Question of if the new regime would support hezbollah. Has been supportive of other uprisings, but not syria. Proxy of iran: loss of syria = loss to iran and gain to saudi arabia. Support democracy and human rights, but follows own interests at the same time. However, russia is a major role in syrian civil war. Syria buying from russia > not supporting similar interests. Russian naval base in tartous > strategic advantage, military. Air strikes and naval strikes asked by assad.
