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In reply to the discussion: U.S. State Department Officials Call for Strikes Against Syria’s Assad [View all]arendt
(5,078 posts)Some of it to the sheer number of posters on DU.
You just gave me a bunch of info about yourself that I did not have.
I have been running this thread for over 12 hours, and have had to deal with the usual collection of hardliners. Apologies for judging you so quickly; but you should have put this post's info into the previous post, since I don't know you.
Yes. Syria is a clusterfuck. But we made it so.
We greenlighted the Saudis and the Turks. We sent arms stolen from Libya. We allowed the Saudis to use armed provocateurs to escalate demonstrations that started due to a massive drought ( a fact almost always ignored) into a Civil War.
We made up the preposterous distinction of "our rebels", even as they trade weapons with ISIS like they were baseball cards. We ignored miles-long lines of ISIS tanker trucks for a year, and we still have never called Turkey out not only for supporting the terrorists, but for literally LOOTING Iraq and Syria. We say we are "against" Wahabi terrorism, but we have allowed the Saudis to evangelize and fund Wahabi terrorism all over the world.
Meanwhile, the CIA and the US military are constantly infighting over this clusterfuck. The military is tired of picking up the china after the CIA bull leaves the shop.
It is a clusterfuck, and we keep on pushing it. This thread is just the latest example of our neocon warmongering. Meanwhile, most of the static I have been getting on this thread is to demonize Assad and Putin - who to my mind are doing their best to avoid a conflagration while barely staying alive.