Reading this grim account, it’s hard to disagree with Glass’ conclusion that Americans are “policymaking adolescents” — a view strengthened by historical parallels that Washington ignored and Glass draws with Syria’s uprising against the French in 1925. Or the implosion of Lebanon in 1975. Or vacillations in U.S. policy that long predate the Obama administration.

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