Washington's Long War on Syria

by Stephen Gowans

Book Overview

When President Barack Obama demanded formally in the summer of 2011 that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad step down, it was not the first time Washington had sought regime change in Damascus. The United States had waged a long war against Syria from the very moment the country's fiercely independent Arab nationalist movement--of which Assad and his father Hafez al-Assad were committed devotees--came to power in 1963. Washington sought to purge Arab...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1771861088
• ISBN13: 9781771861083
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Baraka Books
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"