[robroys woman]

The United States, France and Britain last week launched 105 missiles on three on Syrian chemical weapons facilities without any aircraft entering Syrian air space or coming within range of its anti-air systems.

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This is why we are so involved in wars. Low risk to our troops. I said, when we took out Saddam, that the reason the anti-war protests could not pick up any steam is that unlike the Vietnam war, they couldn’t build up support on stacks of body bags coming home.

Fact is that if the US can wage these little “police action wars” with low risk to our troops, they will not end and might even pick up. If we can send our drones anywhere while they are being piloted by some guys in South Dakota, low risk means high involvement.

[Texas Fossil]

I am convinced the chemical weapons were in fact used and that Assad did it. And Russia’s actions indicate that they knew about it. And that we gave them warning we were going to destroy the weapons.

Nothing in the Middle East is simple.

[PIF]

The difference between Nam and Iraq: the ability to name the enemy.

In the first conflict, we were able to name our enemy with precision; in the second we refuse, on political and social justice grounds, to name anyone other than a leader or a country (neither of which are the true enemy).

We won the war in Nam, but lost it at home. Now, in the ME, we are losing in both places ... because our ‘leadership’ remains politically correct and refuses to name the enemy.

BTW: forget the drones the Russians have found an effective method of jamming them. they are now militarily useless.