The Truth About Syria.

• Author: Moon, Bart
• Position: Brief article - Book review

The Truth About Syria

www.fpri.org/enotes/200706.rubin.truthsyria.html

By Barry Rubin (The Foreign Policy Research Institute)

Reviewed by Bart Moon Elsewhere on our pages we published on August 14 a carefully reasoned article recommending a change in America's policy toward Syria including direct diplomatic contact and financial and other incentives designed to bring Syria and Israel together on a path toward peace in the region (see "The Syrian Turn: Israeli-Syrian Peace and the New Moment in U.S. Grand Strategy").

In the internet essay under review the author, a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Center and the director of the Center for Global Research in International Affairs, argues strongly that any strategy involving direct negotiations and financial incentives...