America’s Middle East Interests After the Fall of Assad
WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 9 December 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:17.8 | From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. |
| 0:23.6 | The fall of Bashir al-Assad in Syria changes the security landscape in the Middle East, |
| 0:29.6 | as Sunni Arab rebel groups sees the capital of Damascus with stunning speed. |
| 0:35.6 | What comes next in that country? And what is America's interest |
| 0:40.8 | in a new Syria? That's our subject for today on Potomac Watch, the opinion podcast of the |
| 0:48.6 | Wall Street Journal. I'm Paul Giego. And I'm here with Elliot Kaufman and Joe Sternberg. So history seems to happen in double time |
| 0:57.1 | these days, and that's certainly true of the revolution in Syria. After years of being dormant, |
| 1:02.8 | the Civil War burst forward again a couple of weeks ago as rebel seized the city of Aleppo, then |
| 1:09.3 | move south and on Sunday stormed into Damascus. Bashar Assad and his |
| 1:14.3 | family fled to Russia, ending more than 50 years of Assad family rule in that country that borders |
| 1:20.9 | Israel, Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, and Iraq. Bashar Assad was more brutal even than his father, |
| 1:31.1 | Hafez al-Assad, killing tens of thousands, |
| 1:38.8 | perhaps hundreds of thousands, in the civil war that began in 2011. So how could Assad fall so quickly? President Biden took credit, but was Israel the main catalyst with its attacks on Hezbollah and Iran? |
| 1:46.5 | Let's listen to President Biden on Sunday. |
| 1:49.0 | Talk about the fall of Assad. |
| 1:50.5 | A long last, the Assad regime has fallen. |
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