04-07-2017, 03:22 PM
(04-07-2017, 03:16 PM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: Syria is already a civil war and a religious proxy war. Throw in Russia on one side and the US on the opposition and it has the potential to be another Vietnam only worse.
I don't disagree, which is why I say I don't know what I would've done or what we should do. I think Assad is like 1990s Saddam and he needs to go, but is that a quagmire we should involve ourselves in more than we already are? I am uncertain about that for the very reasons you posit here.
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR