Gareth Porter is an independent investigative journalist and winner of the 2012 Gellhorn Prize for journalism. He is the author of the newly published Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare. https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/contributor/gareth-porter/rss en Diplomacy & Foreign Affairs Wed, 02 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Gareth Porter https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/community/2016/03/02/plan-b-and-the-bankruptcy-of-u-s-syria-policy https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/community/2016/03/02/plan-b-and-the-bankruptcy-of-u-s-syria-policy The United States has three “Plan B” options on the table if the peace process fails in Syria. None of them, according to investigative journalist Gareth Porter, is a winning idea. “If the U.S. policy were a company doing business in Syria,” he writes, “it would have gone bankrupt years ago”.