I don't need your Civil War...

[4est_4est_Gump]

Then again...

If we had a Syrian elite dedicated to modernization, free markets, and opportunity, we could have an economic recovery in Syria. But the country is locked into suppurating backwardness precisely because the dominant culture holds back individual initiative and enterprise. The longstanding hatreds among Sunnis and Shi’ites, and Kurds and Druze and Arabs, turn into a fight to the death as the ground shrinks beneath them. The pre-modern culture demands proofs of group loyalty in the form of atrocities which bind the combatants to an all-or-nothing outcome. The Sunni rebels appear quite as enthusiastic in their perpetration of atrocities as does the disgusting Assad government.

What are we supposed to do in the face of such horrors? I am against putting American boots on the ground. As I wrote in the cited May 20 essay, “Westerners cannot deal with this kind of warfare. The United States does not have and cannot train soldiers capable of intervening in the Syrian civil war. Short of raising a foreign legion on the French colonial model, America should keep its military personnel at a distance from a war fought with the instruments of horror.”

The most urgent thing to do, in my judgment, is to eliminate the malignant influence of Iran, which is treating Syria like a satrapy and sending tens of thousands of fighters as well as material aid to the Assad regime. Attacking Iran would widen the conflict, but ultimately make it controllable. No sane American should want Iran to acquire nuclear weapons. As Admiral James Stavridis told the New York Times today, “If you can move 10 tons of cocaine into the U.S. in a small, semi-submersible vessel, how hard do you think it would be to move a weapon of mass destruction?”

Ultimately, partition of Syria (and other Middle Eastern countries) on the model of the former Yugoslavia probably will be the outcome of the crisis. There are lots of things to keep diplomats busy for the next generation. But the terrible fact remains that it is not in our power to prevent the decline of a civilization embracing over a billion people, and to prevent some aspects of that decline from turning ugly beyond description. Among the many things we might do, there is one thing we must do: limit the damage to ourselves and our allies.

http://pjmedia.com/spengler/2013/06...rom-a-crisis-of-civilization/?singlepage=true

Let them fight it out.

Read the part about Mexico, I remember when that was going on. We had to bail them out like we're going to have to bail California out.

 

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[RobDownSouth]

Then again...




http://pjmedia.com/spengler/2013/06...rom-a-crisis-of-civilization/?singlepage=true

Let them fight it out.

Read the part about Mexico, I remember when that was going on. We had to bail them out like we're going to have to bail California out.

Time to update your gloom-n-doom memes, Chief.

California is running a surplus, a fact you might have learned if your TV wasn't programmed to exclude everything but Fox.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Syria's army scored a decisive victory on Wednesday in the strategic town of Qusair which controls major transportation routes in southwest Syria. According to the Syrian army:

"We will not hesitate to crush with an iron fist those who attack us. ... Their fate is surrender or death. We will continue our string of victories until we regain every inch of Syrian land. [The capture was] a clear message to all those participating in the aggression against Syria."

Analysts are saying that the capture of Qusair gives a tremendous boost to Hezbollah, which will now be empowered to continue openly fighting along side the Syrian regime's army. According to Lebanese retired general Hisham Jaber:

"Hezbollah will fight anywhere in Syria that requires guerrilla warfare tactics. It fought in Qusair because street battles were required there, and I do not rule out the possibility that it will join more street battles in Aleppo as well. The Syrian army is incapable of fighting street battles."

A Hezbollah supporter, Lebanese retired Gen. Amin Hoteit, agreed:

"The equation is clear, Syria is being subjected to Western aggression spearheaded by Israel. This means that Hezbollah is actually fighting Israel and it is ready to do this anywhere in Syria.

By joining the war, Hezbollah and Syria are affirming the strategy of the resistance axis, which is ... together we confront the same danger."

The Qusair represents a major victory for Syria's president Bashar al-Assad, for Hizbollah's leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, and for Russia's president Vladimir Putin. Daily Star (Beirut) and Daily Star (Beirut)

Assad's Qusair victory renews debate about military intervention

The gloating by Syria's president Bashar al-Assad and Lebanon's terrorist group Hezbollah is raising nationalist fervor outside of Syria, and is renewing the debate whether the West should intervene military.

Both Susan Rice and Samantha Power, both of whom were given national security promotions on Wednesday by the Obama Administration, have been advocates in the past of military intervention in the Darfur crisis civil war. As I've written in the past, military intervention in Darfur would have been a disastrous error. (See "Senator Joe Biden wants to move troops from Iraq to Darfur civil war" from 2007.)

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/...ezbollah-gloat-over-victory-in-town-of-Qusair

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Amen.

Sell them arms. Lots of arms. Throw in the DHS ammo free...

 

[run_silent]

Yeppers, I agree. If it a civil war let them fight it out and we will deal with the winners. We had our own civil war.