Syria Is The New Afghanistan

Russian servicemen at the Hmeimim base, in Latakia, March 2017 (AFP)

Noah Feldman, Bloomberg: Syria Is the New Afghanistan

The U.S. is targeting Russian fighters. Iran and Israel are skirmishing. Turkey is killing Kurds. This war won't end.

It’s official: Syria has become a war of all against all. The latest proof is the report that U.S. planes killed somewhere between four and 200 Russian “mercenaries” last week.

A few days before that news broke, Israel shot down an Iranian drone that came from Syria and then attacked Iranian targets, losing an F-16 in the process. And just a few days before that, Turkey mounted an extensive war against U.S.-backed Syrian Kurds -- probably the same people who called in the airstrikes against the Russians.

Ladies and gentlemen, Thomas Hobbes is in the house.

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WNU Editor: Some are also comparing the Syrian war to Lebanon .... The Syrian battlefield is beginning to resemble the Lebanese civil war and Damascus is dominating (Kamal Alam, Middle East Eye). What's my take .... Afghanistan .... Lebanon .... bottom line this war is not going to end anytime soon.