RE: Trump calls ENTIRE SENATE to White House for North Korea Briefing...
April 26, 2017 at 2:00 am
(April 25, 2017 at 9:06 pm)dyresand Wrote:(April 25, 2017 at 11:20 am)Minimalist Wrote: Any sentence with the word "Trump" in it is ominous. The shitball does not know what he is doing.
after all he said were going to go balls deep into syria fuck up assad and get things done
yet not a god damn thing happened.
I personally don't want us involved in that at all. So what do you think will happen when the Syrian armed forces are subdued, the regime is toppled, and we find the same.goddamned thing.we found out in Iraq and Afghanistan - nation building is bloody and unmanageable in that region.
What happens then? The effort loses public support - if it had any - and we likely withdraw.
Look to examples from fairly recent history for what is likely to happen then. Vietnam and Iraq provide two prominent examples. (I'm well aware that in Vietnam the USA had not achieved military victory, however the overarching point that when you leave a vacuum, what fills that vacuum is no longer in your control, if it ever was.)
"Doing something" constructively here would be lessening our dependence on petroleum and staying out of such no-win situations in the first place. Yeah, we won't be doing that either.
