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Does "caring" always have to mean sending in troops/firing weapons? Larry Send a noteboard - 05/01/2014 09:17:43 AM

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Should we care or just watch the Middle East burn?

Realpolitik can be a very callous thing, but supporting Assad is pretty much out of the question. Intervention I suspect would lead to a bigger mess...and I'm not just referring to future budget deficits. Some battles Americans just should not fight, no matter the horrendous cost, because sometimes it's better to let the civil war be settled internally, even if it seems the biggest casualties lately are among the Druze and Christian populations in Syria. Lose-lose all around.

Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie

Je suis méchant.
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Al-Qaeda-linked force captures Fallujah Anonymous2000 - 05/01/2014 04:36:48 AM 825 Views
Does "caring" always have to mean sending in troops/firing weapons? Larry - 05/01/2014 09:17:43 AM 648 Views
Agreed that intervention would lead to a biggest mess! *NM* Anonymous2000 - 06/01/2014 05:01:45 PM 232 Views
Watch it burn. It was going to happen sooner or later anyway. *NM* Tom - 06/01/2014 02:09:22 PM 237 Views
That is very true..... Anonymous2000 - 06/01/2014 05:00:51 PM 596 Views
Things are certainly becoming, er, interesting. Legolas - 06/01/2014 06:22:58 PM 601 Views
I doubt John Kerry has the capability to effect any cohesive strategy. Tom - 06/01/2014 09:55:04 PM 765 Views
I'm with you on Kerry. But don't you think the Sunni-Shia thing is an effect, not a cause? Legolas - 06/01/2014 11:27:04 PM 744 Views
You know, I'll tell you what a Lebanese friend in Dubai told me Tom - 07/01/2014 05:08:37 AM 657 Views
Okay, but if said friend is Lebanese... Legolas - 07/01/2014 06:25:45 AM 607 Views
Lebanese-American, really Tom - 07/01/2014 02:22:57 PM 579 Views
You know, I hadn't thought of that... the struggle between Tribalism and Nationalism. Dannymac - 07/01/2014 05:14:08 AM 635 Views
It depends on the country, of course. Legolas - 07/01/2014 06:46:54 AM 586 Views
How exactly was Czechoslovakia a disaster? *NM* Tom - 07/01/2014 02:37:57 PM 239 Views
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