Boy, I agree with you on this one, Pat. Leave Syria to the Moslems, er, Syrians.
In pushing for U.S. military intervention in Syria -- arming the insurgents and using U.S. air power to "create safe zones" for anti-regime forces "inside Syria's borders" -- The Washington Post invokes "vital U.S. interests" that are somehow imperiled there.
Exactly what these vital interests are is left unexplained.
For 40 years, we have lived with a Damascus regime led by either Bashar Assad or his father, Hafez Assad. Were our "vital interests" in peril all four decades?
In 1991, George H.W. Bush recruited the elder Assad into his Desert Storm coalition that liberated Kuwait. Damascus sent 4,000 troops. In gratitude,...
I have fought a war where we sacrificed 58000 troops to lose to the communists, when all we had to do was nuke Hanoi and allow the South Vietnamese to resume rice farming.
No point in wasting a perfectly good nuke.
You guys just don't get the fact that one nuke of a Muslim country like Iran makes all the other cower.