An article by Yuri M. Zhukov in the September 3 edition of Foreign Affairs: "More Trouble in the Eastern Mediterranean"   'U.S. Intervention or Not, the Sea is Already Boiling'

In the September 5 issue of The Washington Post, an op-ed by Robert J. Samuelson: "Syria and the myth that Americans are ‘war weary’"

In the same edition, an op-ed by columnist Anne Applebaum:  "Obama’s mixed messages on Syria"