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Related: About this forum"Syria: Intervention Will Only Make it Worse" By Zbigniew Brzezinski
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The struggle is between forces funded and armed by outside sponsors, notably Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Iran. Also participating are foreign religious groups not directly controlled by the sponsors, namely the Sunni Salafists and Iranian-aligned militias, not to mention intensely anti-Western al-Qaeda fighters. American involvement would simply mobilize the most extreme elements of these factions against the U.S. and pose the danger that the conflict would spill over into the neighborhood and set Jordan, Iraq and Lebanon on fire.
That risk has been compounded by the recent Israeli bombing of weapons sites inside Syria. Whatever their justification, the attacks convey to some Arabs the sense that there is an external plot against them. That impression would be solidified if the U.S. were now to enter the fight, suggesting a de facto American-Israeli-Saudi alliance, which would play into the hands of the extremists.
(PHOTOS: Chaos and Killing in Syria: Photos of a Slow-Motion Civil War)
Broader regional fighting could bring the U.S. and Iran into direct conflict, a potentially major military undertaking for the U.S. A U.S.-Iran confrontation linked to the Syrian crisis could spread the area of conflict even to Afghanistan. Russia would benefit from Americas being bogged down again in the Middle East. China would resent U.S. destabilization of the region because Beijing needs stable access to energy from the Middle East.
To minimize these potential consequences, U.S. military intervention would have to achieve a decisive outcome relatively quickly through the application of overwhelming force. That would require direct Turkish involvement, which seems unlikely given Turkeys internal difficulties, particularly its tenuous relations with its substantial Kurdish minority.
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Read more: http://swampland.time.com/2013/05/08/syria-intervention-will-only-make-it-worse/
The struggle is between forces funded and armed by outside sponsors, notably Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Iran. Also participating are foreign religious groups not directly controlled by the sponsors, namely the Sunni Salafists and Iranian-aligned militias, not to mention intensely anti-Western al-Qaeda fighters. American involvement would simply mobilize the most extreme elements of these factions against the U.S. and pose the danger that the conflict would spill over into the neighborhood and set Jordan, Iraq and Lebanon on fire.
That risk has been compounded by the recent Israeli bombing of weapons sites inside Syria. Whatever their justification, the attacks convey to some Arabs the sense that there is an external plot against them. That impression would be solidified if the U.S. were now to enter the fight, suggesting a de facto American-Israeli-Saudi alliance, which would play into the hands of the extremists.
(PHOTOS: Chaos and Killing in Syria: Photos of a Slow-Motion Civil War)
Broader regional fighting could bring the U.S. and Iran into direct conflict, a potentially major military undertaking for the U.S. A U.S.-Iran confrontation linked to the Syrian crisis could spread the area of conflict even to Afghanistan. Russia would benefit from Americas being bogged down again in the Middle East. China would resent U.S. destabilization of the region because Beijing needs stable access to energy from the Middle East.
To minimize these potential consequences, U.S. military intervention would have to achieve a decisive outcome relatively quickly through the application of overwhelming force. That would require direct Turkish involvement, which seems unlikely given Turkeys internal difficulties, particularly its tenuous relations with its substantial Kurdish minority.
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Read more: http://swampland.time.com/2013/05/08/syria-intervention-will-only-make-it-worse/
So lots of military force and Turkey will do the trick?
He also mentions elections in the last paragraph...
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"Syria: Intervention Will Only Make it Worse" By Zbigniew Brzezinski (Original Post)
jakeXT
May 2013
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JustAnotherGen
(31,780 posts)1. N/s
Turkey he says . . . would have to step up to the plate - And with their own internal issues and significant Kurd population that likely won't be possible. So that door is closed.
And elections would need the tacit support of Russia and China as well as Assad as a willing participant.
It's not an easy situation, it wouldn't be "won". There is no winning in that part of the world.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)2. I was with you until the last sentence
Then I remembered what my father taught me when I was back in grade school: "You always win the fight that you never get into."
bemildred
(90,061 posts)3. His opinion isn't worth a bucket of warm spit. nt
mgilli
(1 post)4. 100,000 dead.. but huge arms sales profits, totally immoral greed and mass murder as usual
Very bad writing, as if the US hasn't been involved up till now, via Turkey, Qatar, Saudi, and a new base on the Jordan border, all using and buying more US arms. Totally immoral greed and mass murder as usual. As the death toll reaches 100,000 in Syria all sides and their allies are pouring arms into the fire and the US industrial/war machine is desperate to start the bombing on made up pretexts. The final logic of crisis-capitalism is permanent spreading WAR. Now may be our last chance to protest. read more on these lines here [link:http://thefreeonline.wordpress.com/2013/06/29/stop-now-all-sides-pour-arms-on-syrian-war/|