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uawchild

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14. Seems like our plan is something like this...

Wed Nov 25, 2015, 06:25 PM

Nov 2015

1. Arm Islamist Rebels to get rid of Assad regime

2. Defeat ISIS

3. ??????

4. Peace

The only problem I see is stage 3. What happens to the substantial Shiite, Alawite, Christian and non-Islamist Sunni moslems populations when the "moderate Islamist" Wahhabist take power?

Ok, I guess I have doubts about stage 2 also. What does defeating ISIS really mean? What's to stop ISIS supporters from simply voting in an ISIS like government and taking power "legitimately"? Hasn't that happened before in Egypt with the Moslem Brotherhood, for example? Once it has been released, due to George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq, putting the extreme ideology of ISIS back in the bottle is a frighteningly daunting problem.

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"In Syria, the joke�s on Washington" [View all] uawchild Nov 2015 OP

Peace talks? With whom? Buzz Clik Nov 2015 #1

The internal factions and their proxy backers. uawchild Nov 2015 #2

"As long as our primary objective is met, the consequences don't matter." Matrosov Nov 2015 #3

Message auto-removed Name removed Nov 2015 #15

US policy in Syria is shortsighted and idiotic. Oneironaut Nov 2015 #4

And what happens after removing the rebels? Any plan for that? randome Nov 2015 #6

Assad is the head of the Syrian state. Oneironaut Nov 2015 #17

And getting their advanced jets blown out of the sky by Turkey (TURKEY!) doesn't mean anything. randome Nov 2015 #5

Let Russia have it lame54 Nov 2015 #7

Yeah I can see Obama brokering a deal between Asaad, Isis, Turkey, Kurds, Hezbollah, Russia... Johonny Nov 2015 #8

The author is a Pro-Putin troll. He strongly supported Putin's incursion into Ukraine. Tarheel_Dem Nov 2015 #9

Did you read your own link? The article is not "pro-Putin" at all, its anti-NeoNazi uawchild Nov 2015 #10

Still, I have yet to hear any kind of plan from our side Mojorabbit Nov 2015 #11

Unless you're in the war room, I'm not sure you need "to hear a plan". Who are you? Tarheel_Dem Nov 2015 #12

We always put some official goal to our overt interventions out there. Mojorabbit Nov 2015 #13

Seems like our plan is something like this... uawchild Nov 2015 #14

+1000 nt Mojorabbit Nov 2015 #16