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I will submit my personal opinion later in the thread. Simple question, complicated issue.
Totally agree. I wish though that the area would start to police itself, it's tiring to see innocents killed by the terrorist sects which is my only issue, I wish we didn't meddle in the area and just let it sort itself out, however as long as we are a target we have to do something.I am so tired of the "facilitating terrorism" reason that is used as justification to invade these countries. If this was the case, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and numerous other countries should be invaded first. When is our government going to stop squeezing the water balloon and just leave these people alone? The more we meddle in the middle east, the worse it gets for us. I'm not saying a POTUS should apologize for anything we have done in the past. But one thing our next POTUS should do is admit our policies of meddling in every skirmish we can, providing money to rulers we "like", buying weapons for rebel groups, were wrong and will not be carried out anymore. There isn't one example of us funding a rebel group that has been a lasting success. It provides short term gains at the expense of long term integrity.
We shouldn't deploy troops anywhere. We are not the world's policeman. If people want our troops, they can pay for them.
Both sides are too distasteful to support over the other. Hezbollah v Al Qaeda, Assad v the Muslim Brotherhood. Doing what we can covertly to enable both to destroy the other might be the best course of action, there.
As I said from the beginning. We should be taking advantage of the chaos on the ground to "support the rebels" by destroying select strategic Syrian sites and removing their ability provide Early Warning to Iran as well as their ability to deploy any WMD's. I wouldn't be adverse to targeting Hezbollah infrastructure, either. In addition, we should be closely monitoring said strategic sites, and Tier One individuals should be on stand by to launch heavily supported raids into Syria should such sites seem to be at risk of being overrun or abandoned.
As a theoretical example. Let us say that we have secret intelligence that the reported nuclear facility supposedly destroyed by Israel a couple of years ago managed to get out some uranium, which has been turned into a dirty bomb, and loaded onto a ballistic missile at Site X. We observe through various collection means that Site X is being attacked by Al-Qaeda affiliated rebel forces, who intend to take control of that weapon system. That facility should mysteriously explode and / or that asset should be seized shortly before they get there.
In the meantime, I would also support combat air patrols designed to provide cover to large groups of civilians trying to flee the bloodshed, as well as providing US Support to refugee camps.
I've not seen any evidence connecting the Free Syrian Army to Al Qaeda thus far, what is it about them you find so objectionable that you want them killed off?
As far as the OP is concerned I'm willing to be convinced as regards surgical airstrikes are concerned but putting kids who don't speak a word of Arabic into a complicated and bitter sectarian conflict never works well, as we discovered in Iraq.
Both sides are too distasteful to support over the other. Hezbollah v Al Qaeda, Assad v the Muslim Brotherhood. Doing what we can covertly to enable both to destroy the other might be the best course of action, there.
As I said from the beginning. We should be taking advantage of the chaos on the ground to "support the rebels" by destroying select strategic Syrian sites and removing their ability provide Early Warning to Iran as well as their ability to deploy any WMD's. I wouldn't be adverse to targeting Hezbollah infrastructure, either. In addition, we should be closely monitoring said strategic sites, and Tier One individuals should be on stand by to launch heavily supported raids into Syria should such sites seem to be at risk of being overrun or abandoned
As a theoretical example. Let us say that we have secret intelligence that the reported nuclear facility supposedly destroyed by Israel a couple of years ago managed to get out some uranium, which has been turned into a dirty bomb, and loaded onto a ballistic missile at Site X. We observe through various collection means that Site X is being attacked by Al-Qaeda affiliated rebel forces, who intend to take control of that weapon system. That facility should mysteriously explode and / or that asset should be seized shortly before they get there.
In the meantime, I would also support combat air patrols designed to provide cover to large groups of civilians trying to flee the bloodshed, as well as providing US Support to refugee camps.
I've actually heard that the WMDs were shipped across the Syrian border during the buildup. The first source of that was one of Hussein's own commanders, 2nd in command of the Iraqi Air forces IIRC and the second source were some of our returning NSA and marine friends of mine that said a whole lot of suspicious "relief" trucks were crossing into Syria around the time we were going in. Of course this is speculation on my part but it makes sense to me.I hope you're not speaking of the same intel services that provided the intel about WMD's in Iraq. They were outstanding..... As far as the civilians, it sucks they get caught in the middle. Guess what else sucks. Deploying troops to support them. If they don't like the atmosphere, I suggest they support the rebels and convert from Muslim to something else. Syria and its citizens provided safe haven throughout the Iraq War to terrorists fleeing Anbar Province. Its time they reaped what they sowed. No support, whatsoever, should go to these people. Let them fight it out.
nope.....
well, unless the President has a scandal he needs to deflect attention from.
I hope you're not speaking of the same intel services that provided the intel about WMD's in Iraq. They were outstanding.....
As far as the civilians, it sucks they get caught in the middle. Guess what else sucks. Deploying troops to support them. If they don't like the atmosphere, I suggest they support the rebels and convert from Muslim to something else
Syria and its citizens provided safe haven throughout the Iraq War to terrorists fleeing Anbar Province
Its time they reaped what they sowed. No support, whatsoever, should go to these people. Let them fight it out.