Impromptu words, actions drive U.S. stance on Syria - The Washington Post

Impromptu words, actions drive U.S. stance on Syria - The Washington Post

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It was only a single word — “legitimacy” — but in diplomatic parlance it’s a bombshell, a shot at the moral underpinnings of another government. When Hillary Rodham Clinton stood before television cameras last week to talk about Syria’s autocratic leader, not even her aides expected her to go that far.

And then she did.


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