Middle East

Mr. Trump, Here’s Why Assad Has to Go

CUTTING THE GORDIAN KNOT

Pulitzer Prize winner Roy Gutman calls Syria ‘a vast collection of war crimes masquerading as a civil war.’ To begin the end of it, he says, take out Assad’s murderous air force.

Roy Gutman
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