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

[Mark Kohut]

The U.N. Security Council has agreed on a road map for talks to end
the Syrian civil war. BREAKING NEWS just a few days ago.

On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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:
>>>
>>> He's back.
>>>
>>> http://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n01/seymour-m-hersh/military-to-military
>>>
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPad
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