Posted on 10/10/2015 11:39:17 AM PDT by elhombrelibre
The Syrian Civil War is entering a third and potentially very dangerous phase in its continuing evolution. It began as a purely domestic crisis, became steadily internationalized as other countries intervened, and it now risks becoming a full blown Russian-American cold war proxy conflict. This is a conflict that could turn hot very quickly given the proximity of American and Russian military forces in the same theater of operations.
The civil war started as an Arab Spring sparked revolt by elements in the Syrian military, under the banner of the Free Syrian Army, against the Assad government. There has been a widespread and sustained opposition to the Assad regime in Syria by Sunni citizens and especially the Muslim Brotherhood over the last 50 odd years. Each instance of revolt was met by brutal, overwhelming force from Damascus.
The civil war quickly became internationalized. Iran rushed to support its Syrian ally. Other Arab Sunni governments led by Saudi Arabia and Turkey, fearful of the growing spread of Iranian influence in the Middle East and recognizing that the Assad government was a linchpin in Tehran's Shiite "arc of influence" that stretched across Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Gaza, also intervened with supplies and money for Assad's opponents.
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Isn’t that how WWI started, with allies rushing to defend allies over some backwater?
The enemy of my enemy is my enemy.
Bismarck grunted assent and said it "would begin with some foolishness in the Balkans." He also said there was nothing there worth the life of a single German soldier.
Some 16 years later, he would prove prophetic.
Thanks, liberals, for putting this guy into office.
We had pictures from Kenya from way back. Guess facts didn’t matter, huh?
That's not why it started, but there is always a catalyst to act as a reaction initiator.
To those who's beliefs are along the lines of "leave them be" for fear of starting a war, I would ask them to furnish a working plan for the alternative.
Trouble is, that there really is not one that would work because by that time they are unworkable. by that time appeasements and talk have all led to the inevitable.
That's the history of it. So the reality is that the global community has to act in the initial phase of the conflict that always grows.
In Obama's most recent blunder, he allowed via appeasement, and talk, the Russian camel's nose under the tent.
As you can plainly see, the rest of the camel soon follows suit.
“He also said there was nothing there worth the life of a single German soldier. “
I think he said, in translation “not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier”.
Correct. People today think of “Pomeranian” as a dog, which is why I paraphrased it.
Close on the heels of his Iraq disaster, which followed his Yemen disaster, which followed his Egypt disaster, which followed his Libya disaster. More to come.
They are still trying to insist that there was some point early on where the forces against Assad were mostly Syrians.
The majority have been imported insurgents from the very beginning.
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