01-18-2019, 02:02 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-18-2019, 02:03 PM by Eric the Green.)
(01-15-2019, 12:15 AM)Ragnarök_62 Wrote:(01-14-2019, 11:35 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: I found this video on Syria today. It summarizes the situation well, without distortions.
Well, considering Iraq,Libya, 'Nam, Latin American, and Afghanistan, Neocons certainly have the reverse midas touch. IOW, everything they touch, turns to shit. That means if we can at least bail out of Syria, the shitpile won't be as big and stink as much.
I don't think it would be responsible to bail out now. The Kurds did the most to roll back the Islamic State, and the USA did the right thing in backing them. It was Obama's policy, and he's not a neo-con, although he's no peacenik or isolationist either.
Has the USA turned this operation into shit? To some extent, yes. It seems we almost always do. The bombing, in this case, killed a lot of civilians, the very people we were trying to liberate, ever since Trump took over with his "we'll win so much you'll get tired of winning" and "you've got to take out their families" approach to war.
But the USA is all that stands between the Kurds and them being wiped out by Erdogen and Assad. So that is the problem we face. And the IS has not been defeated yet. So it is very likely that pulling out now will lead to more war and more slaughter. 2020 is predicted by my methods to be a likely starting year for a major war, and this could be it.
It depends on how the USA behaves there, of course. Under Trump or any Republicans, the USA might yet find a way to screw things up further in Syria. Trump is a looney. His impulses are not necessarily the best policies.