Shopping Option C For Syria -- Marc Lynch, Foreign Policy
Arming the rebels is not a Goldilocks idea, it’s just wrong.
Last week's revelations that Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey had supported a proposal by then CIA Director David Petraeus and outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to arm moderate Syrian rebels have galvanized the Syria policy debate. The Syria policy community, which for the most part these days yearns for more aggressive American action, is outraged that the White House overruled this plan. But the real story is that, for once, the inter-agency process actually worked: It vetted and discarded a scheme which rigorous analysis concluded wouldn't work.
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My Comment: We tend to forget that the conflict in Syria is now a sectarian civil war, and getting involved in a sectarian civil war will only result in one thing. The side that is not aided will harbor resentment and anger against the the U.S. or anyone else that aided the opposite side. Bottom line .... the Syrian conflict is the ultimate of quagmires, and if other countries want to get involved (Russia and Iran on one side, Turkey/Saudi Arabia/Qatar/etc. on the other) .... God bless them.
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