[Skybird]

Kapitan,

I am against us messing around there, too, but I aolso point out and find it ridiculous that while we lack clearly defined own objectives we nevertheless get our hands dirty for show, then lament that we should not get our hands too dfirty, next demand another side having very clear objctives to abandon its objectives, and... well, I stop here. Its an endless chain of self-contradictions. Essentially we make idiots of ourselves down there - and by that we helped to extend the war.

All our assistance to the opposition in past years only extended the war, but did not turn the tide. The russians have their huge share of guilt, but this is ours: to extend the war while at the same time from all beginning on shying away from going all the way so that we made sure we cannot win. And what would we have had to win down there in the first? Bringing arch-fundamentalist radicals to power?

The Israelis act the most reasonable in all these years. They strike without remorse where Iran threatens their vital survival interests by bolstering Hezbollah in Syria, and they said from all beginning on they prefer Assad - for he was predictable in good and bad and they knew how to deal with him. Plus they had the military, still, to handle him.

And we in Europe had nthign ebtter to do then to criticise them, and Washington had nothing better to do to aienate them and to know it all better. And so the Donald had his firework show effect, making America great again. And doing NOTHING to the standings in Syria.

We have made complete idiots of ourselves, all of us. Germany, the EU, Britain, France, Washington. We all behave like total idiots down there. Now they say its the hour of "diplomacy" again. Muhahahahahahaha! We want it all, and have no clue how to realistically get there.

Idiots. Clueless, dumb idiots. We should have stayed out of the way. And Obama should never have painted a red line and then ignoring it when Assad overstepped it.

Its not even an opportunity to realistically conduct missile tests, sinc ehte strike conditions was negotiated with the Russians and the Russians did not unleash their ECM capabilities. These missile drills from few days ago tell us almost nothing.

What. A. Waste.