Putin & Trump and Journalists

[David Morris]

Of course you know that the insurgents were doomed from the start, by
Assad's ruthlessness.  And all insurgencies are ripe for cooption,
especially in that region.

I must admit I hate everything about the US presence in the whole region.
After WW2 the US became the de facto prime arbiter there, with Israel and
Saudi-Arabia the prime players, and Iran...  Would we were able to quit the
whole game over there.  Not possible.

David Morris

On Sunday, January 29, 2017, Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
wrote:

>
> How would you have played this out, Thomas?  I would really like to know
>> how this mess would have been improved were you the US President instead
>> of Obama.
>>
>
> I would not have imposed sanctions on Syria. I would not have permitted
> the CIA and the Pentagon to provide weapons and/or training to the
> insurgents. I would have told my open-minded and democratic "friends" from
> Qatar and Saudi-Arabia as well as my "partners" in Europe to stop providing
> weapons and training to the insurgents. I would never have said "Assad must
> go!" And so on and so forth.
>
> Of course, I would have tried to find a diplomatic solution.
>
>
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