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In Syria, the US has nothing but bad options
The Boston Globe ^ | OCTOBER 27, 2015 | Stephen Kinzer

Posted on 10/27/2015 6:34:11 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

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1 posted on 10/27/2015 6:34:11 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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ping


2 posted on 10/27/2015 6:38:54 PM PDT by celmak (GO TED CRUZ !!!)
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Written by the same fellow who wrote The world of threats to the US is an illusion back in April. NYT hack.
3 posted on 10/27/2015 6:40:03 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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But ... not Obama’s fault, right?


4 posted on 10/27/2015 6:41:31 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (I've switched. Trump is my #1. He understands how to get things done. Cruz can be VP.)
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The best option.

Align with Assad and the Russians. Kill all islamic terrorists. Give the other half of Syria to the Kurds. Tell Turkey if the bo.B the Kurds one more time outside their country they will not have an air force the next day.

Fully arm and train the Christians.


5 posted on 10/27/2015 6:45:18 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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Oh it has a good option.

Get out!


6 posted on 10/27/2015 6:45:57 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
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We could form a partnership with Russia to destroy ISIS and al Queda and let Assad take care of the rest.


7 posted on 10/27/2015 6:46:42 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (There's a right to gay marriage in the Constitution but there is no right of an unborn baby to life.)
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countries that have no strategic goals can never achieve them.

Wait a minute. If you have no goals, you always achieve them.

8 posted on 10/27/2015 6:47:36 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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ping


9 posted on 10/27/2015 6:49:40 PM PDT by celmak (GO TED CRUZ !!!)
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Syria is burning in part because the United States is waiting for a good solution.

We created this cluster phluck and now it is absolutely FUBAR, with perpetual chaos the only outcome


10 posted on 10/27/2015 6:51:43 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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Wow

Google is a POS and reporting FR is rife with phishing.

Odd, since FR uses Screwgle analytics.


11 posted on 10/27/2015 6:53:37 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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This punk BG journalista is given space here? Amazing.


12 posted on 10/27/2015 6:55:03 PM PDT by RedHeeler
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13 posted on 10/27/2015 6:56:28 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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Just did some quick research and this is not a screwgle issue, rather, it is a Firefox issue.

So, no problem. I just got this phone and hadn’t switched to my old browser.

Buh bye....homo’s....


14 posted on 10/27/2015 6:56:43 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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I have an excellent winning option. Stay the HELL OUT!! No dog in that fight and Russia is there!! LET THE BIG DOG EAT!!


15 posted on 10/27/2015 6:57:17 PM PDT by WENDLE (Trump is not bought . He is no puppet.)
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If I were running the War Department, I would stay out of Syria, but I would go back into Iraq and re-establish our presence and continue building the Iraq and Kurdish forces helping them to free themselves of ISIS and AQ as completely as possible. I would not bargain with the Iraq government, I would tell them exactly what we will do and exactly what they will do. The US is their only hope for any kind of a peaceful life and the Iraqi people seek that.


16 posted on 10/27/2015 7:02:21 PM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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Excellent


17 posted on 10/27/2015 7:09:50 PM PDT by sparklite2 (All will become clear when it is too late to matter.)
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Testing....


18 posted on 10/27/2015 7:26:53 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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And who’s fault is that, hmmm?


19 posted on 10/27/2015 7:31:07 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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We already formed a partnership with Russia to arm Iran with nukes. Russia isn’t the only partner to that plan, of course, but is in there.

Russia obviously does not want to partner with us, as they’ve made plain, with respect to Syria.


20 posted on 10/27/2015 7:35:16 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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