Syria - how we got here.

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A quick recap of the modern history of Syria

Syria had a brief tryst with democracy in the early years of its independence from French colonial rule after World War II, but that experiment was quickly snuffed out by American interference.

later CIA officers — helped the Syrian military pull off a coup.

in 2000, Israel and Syria came very close to a peace agreement ... in July 2000, Bashar al-Assad requested that those talks resume, but the Israelis and Americans turned him down

as recently as 2007, the Bush administration continued to bar Israel from resuming peace negotiations with Syria.

etc.
and Syria was eager to cooperate with the US after 9/11 doing a fair bit of the CIAs dirty work, but all to no avail.

 

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How Hezbollah sees Syria as the continuation of Israel's 2006 aggression against Lebanon.

 

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What the US Peace Council found.