Michael Shure asks his Power Panel — Judd Legum from American Progress and Michael Hastings from Rolling Stone — whether the worst day yet of violence in Syria means it’s time for the U.S. to take action.
Legum says, “This is a really complicated situation — even more so than in Libya. There might be a risk of starting a civil war.”
Hastings, who was in Baghdad in 2009 when there were massive, similar bombings, says, “The fact that the government is so unstable that they’re no longer able to prevent these attacks from happening, and you can have an attack in the capital city of Syria that does this much danmage — to me, would suggest that if they are not already in a civil war, they’re on the brink of some pretty massive violence.”
