Before we debate a Syrian response,

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2. When you roll the war dice, you take a gamble. It is hubis and stupidity to think we can know what

will come from it. So you have to be ready to gamble it all or you do not roll those dice. It is silly to pretend you can start an engagement and control how it all goes down, it is in fact Busho style reasoning, 'it will take a few days, we will be seen as liberators, the oil pays for it all, our bombs only kill bad guys'.