I wrote my first response to the U.S. cruise missile attack on Shayrat Air Base on April 7, 2017, at 2:30 p.m. EDT—in other words, about 18 hours after the attack. A great deal more has happened since, and it is in the nature of a crisis that this be so. One of the characteristics that make a crisis a crisis is that decision-makers on all sides enter into a condition of accelerated experience. Time pressure deepens, and uncertainties loom. Emotions roil. Stuff happens in parallel (Washington, Damascus, Moscow, Tehran, elsewhere) that somehow seems to collide, upsetting the normal laws …read more
Source: The American Interest
