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2019-10-26 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Herb McCoy 2019-10-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ] Top

#1 The Great Game is now a drunken arm wrestling match over a cesspool. Since the US does not need ME oil anymore we don't need to be involved. We do have to stick with our ally Israel but we and they should look to border security and strategic Missile defense as our long term posture. Let the sarascens gut each other, on their dirt, on their dime.

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-10-26 00:09|| 2019-10-26 00:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Syria is a worthless piece of desert. He can have it.

The Russians care about a warm water port on the Med. That's it. All the Calvinball squabbling over parts of Syria is just local politics. If they have to take strong measures like flying strategic bombing strikes from the Motherland to damp down the indigenous inhabitants, they'll do it. Again.

Posted by SteveS 2019-10-26 11:48|| 2019-10-26 11:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Let another Circusmaster run this particular Shitshow.

Posted by Lex 2019-10-26 11:51|| 2019-10-26 11:51|| Front Page Top

#4 Now we have the option of supporting anti-Russian forces in the region if we want to be shits. I suspect the Russians have been doing as much for the last 20 years.

Posted by ruprecht 2019-10-26 12:28|| 2019-10-26 12:28|| Front Page Top

#5 Modest proposal: peace conference. Assad gets safe passage to Crimea and a nice villa for him and his wife. Ba'athist Party sans Assad remains. If that government wishes to allow the Russians a Mediterranean port on Syrian soil, it's their call. All parties agree to keep the Turks in Turkey, the Iranians out, and Syrian Kurds submit to Syrian rule.

Agreement on mopup operations to clean out remaining ISIS cells, to be followed by a multi-national peacekeeping force made up of Gulf Arabs, Gurkhas, maybe some Danes, Dutch, and East European NATO troops.

Posted by Lex 2019-10-26 12:50|| 2019-10-26 12:50|| Front Page Top

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A somewhat more Modest proposal: peace conference. Assad remains president of Syria. Ba'athist Party with Assad remains. If that government wishes to allow the Russians a Mediterranean port on Syrian soil, it's their call. Russians and Syrians agree to keep the Turks in Turkey, the Iranians out, and Syrian Kurds submit to Syrian rule. 30km safe zone remains for repatriation of Syrian refugees now in Turkey. Russia responsible for security there. Kurds abandon this area.

Agreement on mopup operations to clean out remaining ISIS cells, to be followed by a multi-national peacekeeping force made up of Gulf Arabs, Gurkhas, Russians, maybe some NATO troops as agreed to by sovereign state of Syria. The one with a seat at the UN.

Posted by Albemarle Gray4543 2019-10-26 16:09|| 2019-10-26 16:09|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ deal. Sounds good.

Posted by Lex 2019-10-26 16:12|| 2019-10-26 16:12|| Front Page Top

#8 I am just a opinionized dude with a $400 computer. I trust our beloved and duly elected POTUS to reach an answer infinitely better than I could conceive. There is a way forward. I am sure of that.

Posted by Albemarle Gray4543 2019-10-26 16:32|| 2019-10-26 16:32|| Front Page Top

#9 Same here. Ditto.

Posted by Lex 2019-10-26 17:08|| 2019-10-26 17:08|| Front Page Top

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