"Analysis: Why Europe is sitting Syria out
If Britain wasn't so worried about the Baath Party's hold on power, it wouldn't have the military capability to respond anyway.
Michael GoldfarbJune 15, 2011 06:36
LONDON, United Kingdom — Here's as clear a statement of realpolitik as you are ever likely to hear. The subject is Syria. The speaker is British Foreign Secretary William Hague: 'We’re not entirely powerless, but we are constrained by the need for international support for anything that we do.'"
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