“I thought, hindsight being 20-20, that people had come to understand that we should have done *nothing* to topple Assad.”
Yep, that’s pretty much the consensus of the armchair fighters on our site - me included. As time moves on, we’ll learn JUST HOW STUPID Hillary/Obama’s policies of lighting up the Middle East was. Just today they’re finding mass graves outside of Aleppo.
The media PLAYED US, played the world, and nearly pulled it off. Fortunately cooler heads prevailed. If not for Putin deploying his S-400 missiles (thereby getting the attention of our generals), we may well have had a hot war against the Russians.
And, to this day, NO ONE has been able to explain the need for being involved there.
“And, to this day, NO ONE has been able to explain the need for being involved there.”
When I look at the muzzie invasion of Europe, and contemplate the rivers of blood that will have to flow, I wonder if that wasn’t Obunghole’s and Rotten Cankles’ mission in the Middle East: to create just that situation.