On 2013-09-05, at 11:44 AM, Dennis Redmond wrote:
> The world can and should take out Assad's aircraft and Scud
> missiles…
"The world"??? Obama will be fortunate if he can muster enough support for a unilateral US bombardment. Public opinion in the US, UK, and France is running strongly against intervention. Only in Israel is there popular support for military action against the Assad regime.
On 2013-09-05, at 1:48 PM, Wojtek S wrote:
> DRR: " But the Assadist regime really has degenerated into an
> ethno-nationalist killing machine."
>
> [WS:] If this is the case, this would call for an intervention on the
> scale of Iraq, not just a largely symbolic action that O is proposing, no?
Sectarian tensions and bloodletting reached their peak during the US occupation of Iraq. That adventure exacerbated rather than eased the conflict between Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds, and its results are being felt still.