Posted on 03/11/2012 5:53:03 AM PDT by Notary Sojac
I've argued that we've had our fill of a region teeming with hatred of the United States and the West, that we have no vital interest in the outcome of internecine savagery between an anti-American Muslim dictator and anti-American Muslim supremacists, and that if they insist on slaughtering each other, we should just buy some popcorn (which is all our tapped-out nation can afford, anyway) and watch the show, accepting the grim silver lining that as they weaken themselves they become less threatening to us...That's all fine and good, unless one side is much weaker than the other. Both sides need to be kept supplied to maximize destruction. So far, the vast majority of casualties and deaths has been among those involved in the uprising -- the so-called security forces' losses have been by the security forces of people trying to defect from their own ranks. Luckily, the Sunni states are taking care of that.
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