Lectura de sambata dimineata: 13: So what could we possibly gain from an attack on Syria? The likely result would be something like what happened after the fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan, a vicious civil war among competing factions. No one, of course, can know what would happen then. My hunch is that Syria, like Afghanistan, would be torn apart not only into large chunks such as the Kurds in the northeast but even neighborhood by neighborhood as in the Iraqi cities. Muslims would take revenge on Alawis and Christians who would be fighting for their lives. More millions would be driven out of their homes. Food would be desperately short, and disease probably rampant. If we are worried about a haven for terrorists or drug traffickers, Syria would be hard to beat. And if we are concerned about a sinkhole for American treasure, Syria would compete well with Iraq and Afghanistan. It would probably be difficult or even impossible to avoid “boots on the ground” there. So we are talking about casualties, wounded people, and perhaps wastage of another several trillion dollars which we don’t have to spend and which, if we had, we need to use in our own country for better heath, education, creation of jobs and rebuilding of our infrastructure. theatlantic/international/archive/2013/09/your-labor-day-syria-reader-part-2-william-polk/279255/
Posted on: Sat, 07 Sep 2013 05:38:07 +0000