(September 16, 2017 at 9:23 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(September 16, 2017 at 8:13 am)A Theist Wrote: The world is too intertwined with alliances, trading partners, international agreements and the like. What affects one affects all to the good or to the bad. We can hardly stay out of anything without breaking alliances and agreements. Isolation from the world around us wouldn't work to our benefit.
We do not have any alliance which compels our intervention in Syria. We do have one with Iraq and Afghanistan, of course, but absent those agreements, there's little of interest for us.
We do have alliances and business interests and trade with Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Israel, UAE who are at odds with the Bashar regime and its ally Iran. Could be that the U.S. and our mid east allies believe that it's in ours and theirs best interest to be there given Iran's and Syria's aggressive pursuit of nuclear and chemical weapons, not to mention Syria using those chemical weapons against its own people.
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