Crackdown
Salman Shaikh says Obama shouldn’t rush in—an unsanctioned intervention would play into Assad’s hands.
Salman Shaikh is director of the Brookings Doha Center in Qatar and is a fellow in Brookings’s Saban Center for Middle East Policy. Prior to joining Brookings, Shaikh served as special assistant for Asia and the Middle East under the United Nations undersecretaries-general for political affairs.