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Maybe part of the reason we won't, (and shouldn't), do anything about Assad is because of the outcomes of our last military "fixes". What we left behind is a lo

• vkou 11y ago
  The US has been directly[1], and indirectly[2] providing weapons to Syrian terrorist groups, including Al Nusra (Their local branch of Al Qaeda - with similar goals to what they pursued in Iraq over the past decade) for two years, now. The State Department has never been skittish about getting into bed with violent islamic fundamentalists, and doesn't care about the success (Or the lack thereof) of the last round of military "fixes." It also doesn't seem to recall how this situation played out in Afghanistan... Circa 1980. [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cia-begins-weapons-delivery-to-syrian-rebels/2013/09/11/9fcf2ed8-1b0c-11e3-a628-7e6dde8f889d_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cia-b... [2] http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/09/25/443577215/syrian-rebels-trained-by-u-s-gave-equipment-to-al-nusra-front http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/09/25/443577215/...