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You may smoke a lot of pot, but you write like you smoke meth.

To start with, what I wrote was firmly tongue in cheek. However, there were grains of truth in there. If the top half dozen oligopoly dictator leaders were “gone”, and some military assistance rendered to remove the Alawite from power, that would not cause a single tear to be shed in the Sunni nations.

The rest was to point out how the two nations of Egypt and Iraq, if through some amazing diplomacy, were to replace US forces in Syria, might help mollify the situation.

But the bottom line is that the mighty Syrian military is two farts in a handkerchief, and could be reduced in a few hours by a US attack. But this leaves a basket case of a country thrashing around like 20 years of Lebanon in a week. An epileptic mouse, by US standards, but one below our interests, if not those of France and the Sunni nations.

The Iraqi army alone could easily occupy Syria to help restore order and to keep the Sunni from slaughtering the Alawite.

As far as the terrorists would go, we would probably be more than happy to ship them off to Europe’s ICC, as they are not worthy of import to the US. Some of the cream of the crop might end up in Tel Aviv, to experience some fine quality hemp, but the bulk of them aren’t worth the powder and lead to blow up.

They wanted the ICC to harass the US, then fine, let’s all see the mighty ICC in action doing something useful. Not our problem.

All told, Syria is hardly worth consideration except as a nuisance to Israel. If remade in a democratic model with majority rule, everyone, especially the Syrians, would benefit, even if the Alawite were bitter as hell about no longer being in charge. Tears shed. Tough.