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Obama renewed President Bush’s sanctions on Syria. This is the clearest sign that negotiations between Damascus and Washington are going, if not badly, at least slowly despite statements by both sides that progress is being made. It tells us that despite the rhetoric about a “new US relationship” to Middle Eastern countries, Washington still believes […]http://thechokehouse.com/chokehold2.jpg