Cost Imposition, Iran, and Syria

U.S. Syria Policy Has No Staying Power, Newsday, December 20, 2013. "Sooner or later, this war will end. So the United States must decide who it wants to win. And the victor must not be the Assad regime. The dangers of an Islamist takeover are undeniable. But Assad also has Islamist allies based in Tehran. And unlike the Syrian rebels, Tehran's radicals have a nuclear weapons program."