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

[Mark Kohut]

Obama himself seemed to place (too much) hope in the unfolding of the
spirit of the Arab Spring in Syria....

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:
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>> He's back.
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>> http://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n01/seymour-m-hersh/military-to-military
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