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Hhmmm...”Assad should step down”...hhmmmm
Early Somalia: Feed the sad Somalis..! Boo hoo..!
misguided, but basically worked.
Late Somalia: CAPTURE the dastardly Somali Warlords
TOTAL boondoggle, got nothing, made them hate us, got our guys shot up, left with NOTHING. SUCKED.
And so, too, will it be THIS time.
No, ALL of our focus and effort should be on destroying ISIS. It is worse than pointless to talk about Assad stepping down (which he will never do), since there is no conceivable replacement in sight.
Trump and Tillerson are being influenced by the liberals/globalists on this, and it’s damned foolish. Are we going to FORCE Assad out? That would be beyond foolish and would require massive military intervention. Assad is pure ruthless, brutal realpolitik, appeals to sentiment and morality mean less than nothing to him.
If we are not going to physically remove him from power, prattling on about how he should “step down” just makes us look weak and foolish. Assad has fought through a savage civil war for 6 years, recently his position has been steadily improving, and suddenly he will “step down” just because western countries (yet again) call for him to do so?
This is much worse than mere silliness.
The absolute failure to repeal OC, and the Ryan bill even if it passed would not have repealed it, the firing of Flynn, the hiring of his very liberal daughter and her very liberal husband and Rinse Pre-wash indicates to me Trump is in over his head and is following the NWO Republicans.
Syria is NONE of our business.
Muslims, who want to kill Americans are instead killing each other, what’s the down side?
How does it help freedom if we are backing Al Qaeda?