RE: Why all people think that Assad and ISIS are the only choices?
December 1, 2015 at 3:18 am
(This post was last modified: December 1, 2015 at 3:34 am by Anomalocaris.)
America is much more interested in denying Russia a port in the Mediterranean than it is in containing ISIS. Russia is much more interested in retaining its warm wayer port in the mediteranean than in containing ISIS.
When America last invaded the Middle East, we got our geostrategic as well as regional strategic butt kicked even though no major power with any sort of significant native arms industry backed our enemies. If we invade again, the world's second largest modern arms industry, shielded by the world's largest strategic nuclear Arsenal, would back our enemies to the hilt, even if just to prevent us from getting a foot hold next to their southern border and try another Ukraine on them in the Caucasus.
Given the likely support our enemies will get should we invade, and the causalties that might result for our forces, The unsubstantiated possibility that majority of Americans might be talked into backing a second American invasion of the ME would not seem to be enough to convince majority of the the Americans that the invasion was a bright idea 2-3 years later, well before the next presidential election following the decision to invade. By now I am sure even a bulb as dim as Dubya would see that calculation written clearly on the wall.
When America last invaded the Middle East, we got our geostrategic as well as regional strategic butt kicked even though no major power with any sort of significant native arms industry backed our enemies. If we invade again, the world's second largest modern arms industry, shielded by the world's largest strategic nuclear Arsenal, would back our enemies to the hilt, even if just to prevent us from getting a foot hold next to their southern border and try another Ukraine on them in the Caucasus.
Given the likely support our enemies will get should we invade, and the causalties that might result for our forces, The unsubstantiated possibility that majority of Americans might be talked into backing a second American invasion of the ME would not seem to be enough to convince majority of the the Americans that the invasion was a bright idea 2-3 years later, well before the next presidential election following the decision to invade. By now I am sure even a bulb as dim as Dubya would see that calculation written clearly on the wall.
