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A day of reckoning is coming for America’s muddled Middle East policies

27 January 2018

9:00 AM

27 January 2018

9:00 AM

 Beirut

‘If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense,’ said Alice. ‘Nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn’t be. And what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?’

For the United States, and for the rest of us, Lewis Carroll is as good a guide as any to what is happening in northern Syria right now.

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