Frederick Kuo, Asia Times: Why military escalation in Syria is not in US interest
The images flooding US news sources are the stuff of nightmares. Children gasping for air, their chests heaving in pain, strange foam flooding from their mouths. This time, the images are coming out of Douma, one of the last strongholds of the opposition rebels resisting the Assad regime’s reconquest of Syrian territory.
Already, as if singing in chorus, shrill cries are flooding throughout all of the mainstream US news outlets and self-righteous rhetoric employed in lengthy articles, all calling in unison for a new war in Syria on the basis of moral outrage with the ultimate goal of regime change.
On Monday, a few days after announcing that the US would be pulling its troops out of the Syrian theater, President Donald Trump castigated the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad and its Russian and Iranian allies and promised a swift and powerful military response to this attack.
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WNU Editor: I agree with the above commentary. Syria in its current form is a failed state that will take generations to heal. The U.S. presence will only exacerbate a hopeless situation, while raising the possibility of widening the war that may cost the U.S. multi-billions and countless U.S. lives. And for what?
2 comments:
If the US went in originally to defeat ISIS and to get rid of Assad, why is it NOT in our interest but in the interest of Turkey, Iran, and Russia?
We have to leave Syria and stand by defending Israel and Saudi Arabia. They are largely equipped.That's largely enough for this area.
We have to focus on the South China Sea and Taiwan because we have the tyranny of the distance.
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