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Leading article Australia

A foreign policy realist

7 September 2013

9:00 AM

7 September 2013

9:00 AM

‘The United States does not want either side to win this war. Victory for either side would mean dreadful massacres and ethnic cleansing, as well as an increased threat of international terrorism if the rebels win.’ So said Anatol Lieven, the distinguished foreign-policy expert, in the International Herald Tribune this week.

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