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Samir Bennis, R. Joseph Huddleston, Harshana Ghoorhoo, Daniela A. Maquera Sardon, John Bolton, Stephen Zunes, R. Joseph Huddleston, Harshana Ghoorhoo, Daniela A. Maquera Sardon, John Bolton, Stephen Zunes

Morocco Wants Compromise, Not War, in Western Sahara

U.S. Ambassador in Morocco David T. Fischer after a meeting with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs David Schenker and Morocco's foreign minister in Dakhla, in Morocco-administered Western Sahara, on Jan. 10. FADEL SENNA/AFP via Getty Images

Since U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara in December, a number of political commentators and scholars have been quick to caricature and decontextualize the decades-long dispute while omitting key historical facts.

Recent Foreign Policy articles by Stephen Zunes and John Bolton are the latest illustrations of this tendency.

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