It's FAR worse than that. While we didn't quite start Syria's civil war, we joined the war and dumped billions of dollars, weapons and training into it in an attempt to overthrow Assad. We significantly contributed to the humanitarian disaster, hundreds of thousands of deaths, 11 million displaced refugees, the refugee crisis in Europe and Turkey, and hundreds of millions of people effected.
Look up Operation Timber Sycamore to see how David Petraeus and Barack Obama got us into a war for Saudi Arabia and Qatar to overthrow Assad and build Europe a new gas pipeline through Syria...
That is very sobering and interesting. Thanks.
Oh, I see you were already here before me.
I am glad to see that a lot of us has learnt through these years.
Though, I would argue that we pretty much DID start the meaningful part of it.
Without foreign involvement it most likely would have been a small revolt - perhaps a few hundred killed - before the rebellion was quelled.
Though... “starting the civil war...” I guess it is a question of semantics.
We seem to be on the same page.
Cheers.