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Originally Posted by Skybird
Iraq: failure. Afghanistan failure. Now Syria:failure. The US seems to have the ambition to install itself as world champion of needless strategic defeats. All muscles, no brains.
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It's a sad tale, but I agree completely. And I would add to that list Libya. The Neocon dream of bookending Iran by establishing Democratic states in Afghanistan and Iraq will go down as one of the great strategic mistakes in that region. Rather than contain Iran, the destabilizing of Iraq has increased their influence. Syria is a gift to Tehran as well.
One could almost be led to believe that this was the plan along. Pick a fight with Iran. War is big business.
American presence in Syria is a man standing at the edge of a rabbit hole. Yes ISIS still exists. But if Bashar al-Assad, Russia, Iranian-backed Shia militias from Iraq, Hezbollah, and various groups supported by Turkey can't defeat ISIS then what is the answer? A very large US military involvement would simply repeat previous mistakes. The answer in my opinion is to let these people solve their own problems and stop creating more problems.
We may not like the result but what is the chance that we would get a result that we would like. History so far says less than zero.