Ahole. YOu don’t have to “go to war” with Syria or Russia re a “No Fly Zone”. Just shoot down the first five planes that violate it and ask the Russians (screw the Syrian butchers), “You just lost 5 trained pilots and about 100 Million Dollars or more worth of planes. Do you want to lose many more or will you back off?”.
Also, take out any Russian checkpoint that stops humanitarian supplies from getting into Aleppo and other cities under siege.
Call it payback for the slaughter of unarmed medical personnel and their helpers in the convoys that either the Syrians or Russian wiped out last week, as well as for the hospitals and medical supply warehouses they bombed.
If Putin isn’t insane, he will respect our will and our position to enforce a “No Fly zone”. If he is insane, then we should send Stinger missiles to the Ukraine, Poland, the Baltic States and trusted Syrian resistance forces.
The Stinger was the weapon that defeated the Russian in Afghanistan, shooting down an unconfirmed 60 Soviet aircraft from helicopters to transports to fighter-bombers, killing dozens of experience Soviet pilots and crewmen, and costing them billions in air losses.
Ask the Spetnaz what happened to them once they lost their air cover. It wasn’t pretty.
Sure, just start shooting down Russkie warplanes. That’ll show ‘em! What could possibly go wrong?
Stingers to Poland? Stingers? What year do you think this is? What millennium for that matter? Poland is getting the most advanced air defense system in the world, from an outfit called Raytheon. Maybe you heard of ‘em.
“Trusted Syrian resistance forces”? Just WHO might that be? Like those in Al Rai, who humiliated and chased out US special forces? Do “trusted Syrian resistance forces” come from the same place of hopeful imagination which spawned “Moderate Muslims”?
The whole damn thing in Syria is a farce and part of the longstanding overall objective of destabilization which has already hammered Iraq, Libya and Egypt. Iran was to be next after Syria. Blind neocon arrogance was apparently unable to anticipate the Russians throwing a monkey wrench into the works when Russian interests were threatened in Syria. Did the neocons think the Russians would just let Syria be consumed by ISIS and al nusra and other jihadist proxies when it became obvious the US military establishment and the American people had a gut-full of this adventurism?
The US military has been dishonored by those at the top, who sent it into harm’s way to make Afghanistan safe for the heroin base trade, and to remove Iraq as a rival to the Saudi crapbags who Bush made kissy-face with, and Obama bowed to.
I won’t feel better about this situation until we get to the stage of building gallows. Very large gallows, for efficiency...