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Showing Original Post only (View all)So what is the end game in Syria? What is that the admin hopes to accomplish? [View all]
As they haven't said (at least I can't find that they've having articulated an end game), I'm curious what people here think; both those supporting intervention it and those against it.
End game? Anyone?'
This is an interesting piece on what could happen. It was written a month ago. None of the scenarios are exactly rosy.
http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/12967/strategic-horizons-endgame-scenarios-for-the-syrian-conflict
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So what is the end game in Syria? What is that the admin hopes to accomplish? [View all]
cali
Jun 2013
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end game- 80-20, Hillary/Booker landslide 500 electoral votes, 129 million popular votes. 6-3 SCOTUS
graham4anything
Jun 2013
#1
No, you asked what I would like the end game of all the anti-Obama smears to be, and I answered.
graham4anything
Jun 2013
#4
I sure the fuck did not ask that. not a little bit. not even close. not even in the same universe.
cali
Jun 2013
#6
I am still waiting for the 8,323,123 times they said Iran would bombed, and SS would be cut.
graham4anything
Jun 2013
#8
let's see: food stamps are being cut- significantly. I never said Iran would be bombed.
cali
Jun 2013
#10
Destabilization -> Invasion -> More US military bases -> Imposition of friendly "democracy"?
Junkdrawer
Jun 2013
#3
one would think that as the admin has been discusssing intervention in syria and has decided
cali
Jun 2013
#12
Because letting Russia and Iran help Assad restore order is too awful to imagine...
Junkdrawer
Jun 2013
#26
To maintain hegemony, to weaken Israel's rivals. Read "A Clean Break" (PNAC, 1997)
leveymg
Jun 2013
#29