Re: Seymour M. Hersh · Military to Military: US intelligence sharing in the Syrian war · LRB 7 January 2016

[Peter M. Fitzpatrick]

     Excellent, if not alarming, reporting on the quagmire. There are
times, (Tito, Saddam Hussein, and yes, Assad) seem to be "acceptable"
dictators that hold back the forces of civil war and massive bloodshed that
follows their removal. Always a deal with the devil, I guess, just a
question of which is worse, removal or letting them be. I think most
Americans had vague notions of another manifestation of the "Arab Spring"
taking place in Syria a few years ago, unaware of the Isil and other
terroristic forces waiting to fill in the vacuum and re-instate oppression
with Wahhabi and worse Islamism. Everything I read here only solidifies my
opposition to what Republican candidates are touting as the solution to
Isil. We have been drawn into these third world conflicts before, i.e. Viet
Nam, only to pay a high cost for little result.

  -Pete

On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 8:17 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> He's back.
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