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In reply to the discussion: Kick and Goddamned R if you don't want to Attack Syria! [View all]Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)We throw in weapons and intelligence to help kill Assad and anyone connected to his government (and their wives and children, natch), and what happens? Does Syria become a peaceful, prosperous nation with strong and secure diplomatic and economic ties?
Or does it turn into a political wasteland of rival salafist "tribes" executing one another (to say nothing of what they do to those Christians, Druze, and Alawites you just mentioned, as well as the Shia you didn't) in order to feel that they are the ones "in power"?
There will still be a space on the map marked "Syria," but it will be no more of a nation in reality than Afghanistan or Somalia. And this is the result that our nation is working toward. And it's happened so often, that I don't have the luxury of believing it is a miscalculation, each and every time.