US's recent attack on Assad's forces 

Prof.  Stephen Zunes (Zoo-ness) is a Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of San Francisco, where he chairs the program in Middle Eastern Studies. He is recognized as one the country’s leading scholars of U.S. Middle East policy and of strategic nonviolent action, Professor Zunes received his PhD. from Cornell University and previously served on the faculty of Ithaca College, the University of Puget Sound, and Whitman College. He serves as a senior policy analyst for the Foreign Policy in Focus project of the Institute for Policy Studies, an associate editor of Peace Review, a contributing editor of Tikkun, and chair of the academic advisory committee for the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict.   Among his publications, the most recent is “Western Sahara: War, Nationalism and Conflict Irresolution”  and earlier “Tinderbox: US Foreign Policy and the Roots of Terrorism” co-written with Richard Falk.  His website is StephenZunes.org which has over 400 of his articles.