Thanks Judy. First link has two http's, but works just fine if one takes on out. It's definitely "reader-friendly" and I love maps.
________________________________ From: "authfri...@yahoo.com" <authfri...@yahoo.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2013 8:09 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Obama will bomb if Congress gives approval Very good, clear explainer of the situation in Syria by WaPo's foreign affairs blogger: http://http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/08/29/9-questions-about-syria-you-were-too-embarrassed-to-ask/ --- In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, <authfriend@...> wrote: Violent regime change in Syria would be a huge freaking deal requiring troops on the ground, a full-scale military conflict. That's not what the administration is after. They just want Assad to stop using chemical weapons. Here's the administration's basis for claiming that it was the Syrian government that launched the chemical attacks, not the rebels: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/08/31/world/middleeast/31syria-chemical-weapons-assessment.html?ref=middleeast Very different from the purported evidence of Iraqi soldiers killing Kuwaiti babies in incubators, if you recall how that went. Doesn't mean it's all true, just that the baby-killing stories aren't a good comparison.
