Given the unexpected pace of events in recent weeks, the end of Syria’s seven-year agony appears to be very near. It is now all but certain that Bashar al-Assad’s government will win its long war against Sunni jihadists and their foreign supporters. The focus in Syria is already turning from conflict, casualty counts, and displacement […]
Author Archives: Patrick Lawrence
Patrick Lawrence is a columnist and author. He was a foreign correspondent for many years, chiefly for the International Herald Tribune and the New Yorker. His most recent book is Time No Longer: Americans After the American Century (Yale). Follow him @thefloutist and on Facebook. His website is www.patricklawrence.us.