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

[Monte Davis]

Agreed in general, although I raise an eyebrow at "We have been drawn into
these third world conflicts before, i.e. Viet Nam..."

"We have inserted ourselves into..." might be more apt.

On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 11:49 AM, Peter M. Fitzpatrick <petopoet at gmail.com>
wrote:

>      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.
>>
>> http://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n01/seymour-m-hersh/military-to-military
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
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>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>
>
>
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