Taking Stock on Syria
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2018
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
All week, President Trump has promised airstrikes in response to the Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons, but so far nothing has come. Does this mean he’s having second thoughts? Or is this simply the calm before the storm? On Friday afternoon, Scott Anderson spoke with Dan Byman, Lawfare's foreign policy editor and a senior fellow in the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution, and Tess Bridgeman, a former deputy legal adviser to the National Security Council and current affiliate of Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation, for a late-breaking discussion on that question and more.
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| 1:02.6 | Do we blow up? |
| 1:09.2 | And airfield, do we blow up? |
| 1:10.4 | Multiple airfields, do we go after a wide array of targets that include some ground forces? |
| 1:15.7 | I think they'll be an attempt to link things to chemical weapons rather than tying it |
| 1:20.0 | necessarily to the war. |
| 1:21.6 | In terms of things that will have the biggest impact, anything that's going to have a big |
| 1:26.0 | impact needs to be sustained. |
| 1:28.5 | So if you're going to try to go after a South Air Force, they can try to protect some |
| 1:33.0 | of the air defense and try to mitigate some of the damage some of the Russians might |
| 1:36.9 | guard effectively. |
| 1:37.9 | Are you trying to say we're going to limit your use of conventional military forces against |
| 1:42.8 | civilian targets, which means a lasting presence? |
| 1:45.6 | Are we going to try to prop up what remains of the opposition and restore them? |
| 1:49.4 | Again, that's a lasting training equipped program. |
| 1:51.8 | So to have an impact, it's not just needs to be something big, but something that's sustained |
| 1:56.6 | over time. |
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