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firefall · 61-69, M
Well, for any intervention, what's the end game? ISIS in control? Assad in control? There doesnt seem to be any good ending to this thats even slightly plausible (the pro-Western faction is so tiny as to be ridiculous, after they got hung out to dry by the USA last year).
Better to keep out of it, look after the refugees, and hope they come to a draw-by-exhaustion.
Better to keep out of it, look after the refugees, and hope they come to a draw-by-exhaustion.
NativeOregonian · 51-55
@firefall Except it's been going on for thousands of years, there will never be a draw.
firefall · 61-69, M
@NativeOregonian Sure there has. Syria was peaceful under the Ottoman Empire for at least the 500 years between Constantinople falling and WW1, and after WW1 it was relatively peaceful under the Mandate - and since WW2 it was internally peaceful until this civil war broke out - all its aggressions got poured out onto Israel, with remarkably little to show for it.
Handwaving all of history away and saying they've been doing this for thousands of years is only true if the 'it' you're talking about is 'war', at which point, sure, there will always be war, somewhere, but not all the time in one place.
As for hoping for a draw-by-exhaustion, that's pretty much how Lebanon wound up with a relatively stable (if unpleasant) government.
Handwaving all of history away and saying they've been doing this for thousands of years is only true if the 'it' you're talking about is 'war', at which point, sure, there will always be war, somewhere, but not all the time in one place.
As for hoping for a draw-by-exhaustion, that's pretty much how Lebanon wound up with a relatively stable (if unpleasant) government.