The Largest US Foreign Policy Blunder Since Vietnam Is Complete: Iran Readies Massive Syrian Ground

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1. Perhaps check the Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy sites for more professional

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viewpoints. Russians are not happy about possibly being dragged into another middle east "Afghanistan," their version of our Viet Nam. In any case, the advanced but economically perilous theocratic nation of Iran strongly supports the Assad family of Syria because their religion is very similar to Shia. Russia is a long-term ally of Iran, though hardly friends. In welcoming Russia, these nations are also doing their traditional thing of playing off outside aggressors and trying to keep any one from getting too powerful in the middle east.

Please note that we are in fact very busily engaged in and WINNING economic wars against Iran and Saudi Arabia, both of which depend almost totally on oil revenues for their national wellbeing, and against Russia, which also depends on oil to, among other things, pay off rivals to Putin's power. The U.S. is currently effectively energy independent and the world's largest producer of oil and gas.

Not launching a potentially dreadful and tremendously expensive ground war in Syria, that would win no gratitude (quite the contrary!) or friends or and lose many, is hardly a giant blunder of OURS.