US troops to Syria

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(11-01-2015, 05:49 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: So the idea that the Syrian civil war is religious v. secular is bollocks. The opposition forces are comprised of groups both secular and religious, including Kurdish units. 

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(11-01-2015, 05:49 PM)Belsnickel Wrote:  It all started because of Assad's extreme (torture, imprisonment, murder) of people speaking out against his regime during the Arab Spring. His regime is like the Hussein regime. Same party, same ideology, same temperament. We should not be involved in taking him out, just as we should not have been in Iraq. 

I see a slight difference here.  We did not start the civil war in Syria the way we did in Iraq.  I am 100% against ever starting a war to remove a despot.  But in very limited situations I can agree with the rest of the world stepping into a civil war situation that turns into a bloodbath.  However even then we should not get involved unless it is part of a large coalition.