12-02-2015, 10:47 AM
(12-02-2015, 03:21 AM)HairOfTheDog Wrote:I'm not a politician or a fortune teller like Mr. Cruz so for me it's difficult to say what could or would have happened if did or didn't. Currently ISIS has a state and a home base in Syria. This was a bit of an eye opener for me.(12-01-2015, 02:56 PM)Blindgreed1 Wrote: Obama has taken the "do nothing" path with Syria since 2012. That's not turning out so good for us.
That's one take on it. But, would directly intervening in Syria's civil war really have been more in America's best interest?
Another take on it: had the U.S. intervened with no clear or qualified leadership to fill the power vacuum left by Assad's (secular) regime, the U.S. would likely have once again taken sides in a civil war or coup (like Egypt and Yemen and Libya) only to see the investment of American lives and dollars lead to even more unrest and destabilization.