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Originally Posted by Swift Sword
Let me get this straight: they thought that if Israel bombed Syria it would forward American interests?
Question: how would throwing Syria off balance and destabilizing that country help the United States in its efforts to stabilize neighboring Iraq?
It would appear that chaos, anarchy, instability and the Fog of War are the conditions under which radical Islam extends its sphere of influence so creating more of it in Syria, Iran or elsewhere would appear to be unhealthy to both U.S. and Israeli interests.
Find out what these cats be smoking on and get me some.
William
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THERE. Right THERE.
This is what I''ve been talking about. Willam, you have a basic misunderstanding of what's going on, where our interests lie, AND the Syrians', AND the Israelis'.
Iran and Syria are what we call ENEMIES. Israel is an ALLY. Destabilizing an enemy regime, or two, or three DOES serve our interests, and Israel's.
You seem to imagine that the Iraq Surrender Group had a dam' good point: if only we can get Syria and Iran to see that their fostering of chaos in Iraq is a Bad Thing - not just for us, but for them, too - well, then they'll just change that decades-old, well-considered, heavily-supported plan, and just come on aboard the Ole American Bandwagon.
NO SIR. You don't get it, and I've pointed that out to all and sundry on this Board almost since you first posted that pap.
How would destabilizing Iran and Syria help stabilize Iraq? By forcing them onto the defensive, like we currently are. Instead of a Green Zone in Baghdad, let's have a couple in Damascus and Tehran. Right now, as we speak, the most deadly weapons in the terrorists' aresenal, the Explosively-Formed Projectile, is flowing in an uninterrupted stream across the Iranian border. And the operators of same are flowing in from the other side, the Syrian border.
They are ENEMIES, William, and you'd do well to study up on that word, and the strategic imperative of defeating them. They kill Americans, and if you gave two damns about that, instead of the defeat and retreat in the face of a victorious enemy that you've been urging, even somebody as blinkered as you are MAY urge that we fight back, and stop respecting a line on a map that our enemies don't give a dam' about.
Just try to get out of your Realist mindset for a moment (because, thank Gawd, the ISG's laughable product has utterly discredited it), and get your head around this concept: chaos, anarchy, instability and the Fog of War are our ALLIES, when used against our ENEMIES.
JAYZUS, this is so BASIC; how can you not SEE that?