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Originally Posted by Steve Rupe
What in your mind defines "containment" and contain Syria/Assad/Russia from doing what exactly.
My solution is, let Muslims kill Muslims, I have little sympathy or empathy for them.
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Closing the border of Syria and allowing the neighboring countries to host any refuges as they see fit. I don't agree with the put them (the population of Syria) on an island with a knife and let them fight it out philosophy. However, the USA putting on a show of "moral smugness" is not accomplishing anything. Tossing a few missiles and firing off some artillery shells helps little. If the USA sent a 250K man expeditionary force into the area what would we achieve -- another Iraq? How did that work out.
ISIS strongholds are falling in the face of US coalition air strikes supporting Arab and Kurdish troops -- that is a good thing. Let the Arabs and Kurds clean up their own backyard.
An analogy is Vietnam. American forces left and millions died but the world survived -- Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand are still there -- the outcome was not the best but there was little choice. Those people suffered -- Pol Pot was not an American client by any means ... He was not a Russian client or Vietnamese ally either -- he was the personification of evil so is Assad if he thinks he has the right to gas his own people. In the end he will hang -- but at the hands of his people.