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In reply to the discussion: Hans Blix: U.S. has “poor excuse” for Syria incursion now [View all]freshwest
(53,661 posts)While the people going into Turkey may only be refugees, there is more to it than that. Some may enter to overturn the government of Turkey for their faction.
But I think this is being done at the behest of Turkey, definitely not the USA, which has been dragged into it. Turkey has been complaining long and loud about what Assad has been doing because it directly affects them.
Question:
Which nation directly adjoining Iraq had such a grievance, and was a member of an alliance that was not hastily put together, but has been pledged to support each other for over half a century?
Answer: None.
Iraq and Syria are not the same and the move against them is not the same. Unless we want to call Obama following the PNAC model, which he has not done.
Question:
Who did not want the USA to leave Iraq and wanted the USA to follow that model and Bomb Iran?
Hint:
Ran for president with Caribou Barbie in 2008. And still wants to run for president in 2016. And wants us to go into Syria and has already picked his favorite rebel group to replace Assad.
Who does not want a war with Iran and is using every other means to settle down concerns about Iran, and avoided calls for going into Syria for years, and is has continually gotten flak from the RW about it?
Answer:
Obama.
If Turkey was not in NATO, this might not be happening. But I don't blame them for wanting this cancer to spread in the region, either.
Syria's Assad has had a terrible reputation for repressing his people for decades, this is not news to anyone. What his reasons for acting the way he has in the past are, I don't know but some Lebanese still hold him responsible for the turmoil in their nation, saying he used proxies to invade Lebanon to create a 'Greater Syria.'
Russia has not curtailed Assad, instead they are leaving NATO to play the bad guy for their own reasons. They could have coerced Assad to do something else years ago, but didn't want to do so because they, too, have groups within their own borders that want to do harm them.
P. S. Agreed totally with your post.