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| Syria-Lebanon-Iran |
| Jerry Pournelle on O & Syria |
| 2013-06-15 |
| Go back a few years. Imagine a CIA plot to get Iran which considers us the Great Satan and hates us, to declare war on al Qaeda and expend blood and treasure on exterminating al Qaeda – which long ago declared war on us, and which is the most easily defined enemy in our War of Terror. Imagine that al Qaeda might be induced to expend its resources fighting Hezbollah and Iran. Imagine that we could get our enemies to fight each other using whatever weapons they could muster, and expend their blood and treasure on exterminating each other, so that neither had very much to spend on killing Americans. Come to the present, where that is happening. Israel after careful consideration has stayed out of the Syrian civil war on the grounds that the Assad Family has kept the peace with Israel for decades, while al Qaeda attacks Israelis. Imagine that somehow the trick has been made to work, and our enemies fight each other in a war in which the United States has no describable national interest. Now imagine that having achieved that result we decide to enter the war. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #7 We already gave them the contents of the Bengazi warehouse, Large. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2013-06-15 23:32 |
| #6 After all the Dem railing about a lack of a UN-authorized coalition in Iraq 2, where is Obama's UN coalition? |
| Posted by: KBK 2013-06-15 22:46 |
| #5 As long as they're not Tea Party rebels, this administration will. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-06-15 20:07 |
| #4 How will they tell the 'good' rebels from the 'bad' rebels? Take their word for it? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2013-06-15 17:43 |
| #3 You would think that Iran would have learned after the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988). Why would O get involved? Perhaps Hezbollah is making too much of a difference on the ground. I still don't see how the US can keep its arms out of the hands of Al Qaeda. AlQaeda fighter will just attack the pro western fighters and take them; no honor there. |
| Posted by: Large Lover of the Weak2766 2013-06-15 17:05 |
| #2 the terrorists who infiltrated from Syria to Iraq And who are now waging war against both Assad and the successor Iraqi government. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2013-06-15 14:46 |
| #1 That would be the Assad family that provided a base of operations for the terrorists who infiltrated from Syria to Iraq resulting in the deaths of hundreds and wounding of thousands of Americans. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-06-15 11:59 |