Stephen F. Cohen — By Toppling Assad US Will Open Damascus' Doors to ISIL

"Russia has said for nearly a decade and certainly since the beginning of the Arab Spring that every time the United States begins a "regime change" the result is something much worse. Russia points to what happened in the aftermath of the American war in Iraq, it points more recently to what happened when we abetted the overthrow of Gaddafi in Libya. And when these things happen: failed states, civil wars, extremists… who pays the price? Not the United States. It's these countries. And now we see Europe itself facing a refugee crisis," professor of Russian studies at Princeton University and New York University Stephen F. Cohen emphasized in his interview with US author John Batchelor.

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By Toppling Assad US Will Open Damascus' Doors to ISIL 

Stephen F. Cohen | Professor emeritus at New York University and Princeton University