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Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Global Hour: Incursion into Syria: Good Tactics or Bad Politics?
Dear students and scholars,
Global Hour is a weekly program of informal discussion that covers a wide range of topics. It is committed to facilitating the exchange of views and perspectives within a relaxed setting, while engaging important issues that highlight global and human conditions.
Title: Incursion into Syria: Good Tactics or Bad Politics?
DATE: Thursday, October 30th from 6:30 P.M. to 8:30 P.M.
VENUE: International House
This week in Global Hour we will have a discussion regarding the recent incursion into Syria by the US military.
See http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7695169.stm and http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7694528.stm and http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2008/10/2008102815052252838.html and http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,444199,00.html for some reporting about the incident.
1. Do you feel this kind of action is justified in a war on terror where the enemy is generally not a nation state?
2. Iraq claims ignorance regarding the raid and has protested the use of its territory for such actions.
a. Who do you think the US informed, if anyone, prior to the raid?
3. Hitting an enemy where they feel safe and untouchable is a military tactic as old as warfare.
4. How will this action impact US relations to various middle eastern nations?
a. Other allied nations?
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Global Hour is a weekly program of informal discussion that covers a wide range of topics. It is committed to facilitating the exchange of views and perspectives within a relaxed setting, while engaging important issues that highlight global and human conditions.
Title: Incursion into Syria: Good Tactics or Bad Politics?
DATE: Thursday, October 30th from 6:30 P.M. to 8:30 P.M.
VENUE: International House
This week in Global Hour we will have a discussion regarding the recent incursion into Syria by the US military.
See http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7695169.stm and http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7694528.stm and http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2008/10/2008102815052252838.html and http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,444199,00.html for some reporting about the incident.
1. Do you feel this kind of action is justified in a war on terror where the enemy is generally not a nation state?
2. Iraq claims ignorance regarding the raid and has protested the use of its territory for such actions.
a. Who do you think the US informed, if anyone, prior to the raid?
3. Hitting an enemy where they feel safe and untouchable is a military tactic as old as warfare.
4. How will this action impact US relations to various middle eastern nations?
a. Other allied nations?
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