What assurances do we have that this won't eventually escalate into a ground war?

[davidn3600]

Sure ground troops are not being talked about now. But what happens if we bomb Syria and knock down a few buildings and Assad keeps going? Do we bomb him again and again? Eventually he'll feel cornered and he'll use those chemical weapons again. Or what if he falls and Al-Queda gets those weapons?

War never goes according to plan. You always have to be prepared for the worst possible scenario. If worse comes to worse, are we prepared to send in tens of thousands of ground troops to secure those chemical weapons?

[woo me with science]

1. Nobody can give such assurances.

And the fact that we are hearing such utter HORSESHIT....(http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023589314)

...shows how casually the lies are flowing now.

What deja bullshit.

Rumsfeld: "I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today would last five days, or five weeks, or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last any longer than that."
--Donald Rumsfeld, November 14, 2002

[woo me with science]

2. K&R

[snagglepuss]

3. Perhaps that is the plan. Perhaps TPTB want an excuse to make this a ground war.

[bluestate10]

4. None. We can defeat Assad's forces. But stopping the radical elements will prove to be

tougher. We will first help people who will turn on us in a flash and who are capable of gross abuses.