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Anything is possible. Nixon did NOT send his army first, no?

Very high points for knowing your Nixon history.

BRC
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You are asking a lot! They would have to be able at least to understand him. For that they would at least need to be able to read him. For that they’d at least need to be able to read. I’m still looking for evidence of this last.

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Fabulous read. I doubt there are any six people in the current administration who could beat keep up with this guy.

BRC
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http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-path-out-of-the-middle-east-collapse-1445037513

Oct. 16, 2015 7:18 p.m. ET.

If the situation heats up, then Obama will take some real action; he will send in John Kerry who has 57 varieties of ways to solve the problem!

But, Obama has already taken decisive action; the USS Theodore Roosevelt is now out of the Persian Gulf and on the way back to the US for maintenance!

In the unlikely event that still more is needed, then Obama will further up his game — he will draw a red line in the sand!

Finally, in the remote possibility that those monumentally strong command decisions are still not enough, he will go to very top of his game — send in our most experienced expert, magnificent track record, never failed, always successful, super tough April Glaspie. No, better yet, send in DNC Chairperson Debbie Downer! She’s one mean Btch, right!

Friday Funnies, right? ROFL yet? I mean, what are we going to do with Obama? Cry? For all that good that will do, we might as well laugh.

For more, let’s see: In that gigantic oily toilet, we’ve got Alawites, Shiites, 1-2 dozen groups of Syrian rebel Sunnis, ISIS-Sunnis, Kurds, Iraqi Shiites, Iranians, Hamas, Hezbollah, sometimes the Turks, various volunteers from Libya to Chechnya, and now the Ruskies!

Still basically it yet another chapter in the 500+ year Sunni-Shiite war, in recent decades, on steroids, that is, oil.

And out of all that mud wrestling in that oily toilet, we expect what to happen good for who?

Assad? He’s signed up to be an indentured puppet of Iran, Russia, and maybe also Hezbollah and Hamas.

Russia? The deployment is costing them money. They can get paid back in desert sand if they want but are not much in line to get paid in oil. Besides, Russia has lots of oil, and the only one in the oily toilet who could pay Russia would be Iran and then only in oil. Russia could help Iran get nuke bombs, here Russia should be careful since Ayatollah Kockamamie is no buddy of anyone but Shiites, and not even all Shiites, and thinks that anyone not a Shiite is a hated infidel he wants dead. Lie down with that rabid skunk and will get up smelling really bad if get up at all.

Iran? In broad terms, it would tough for them to get ROI on what it would cost them to project power all the way to the eastern Mediterranean.

Hamas? It takes all the civilized restraint of Israel not just to kill all of them, quickly and easily.

Hezbollah? They’ve tried before, and Israel went all the way north to, where, Beirut?

Iran could use Syria as a base to attack Israel? Yup. And Israel could use Israel as a base to attack Syria and Iranian bases in Syria. Israel has lots of F-15s and F-16s, might be able to use some F-22s and F-35s, and, gee, where might they get some of those? And Ruskie missiles and planes are going to do what to F-35s and F-22S — maybe once they can see one of them. I have a lot of confidence that much of the high cost of the F-35 and F-22 programs was just to make those planes effective against anything Ruski.

As Kissinger said about the Iran-Iraq war, “Too bad they can’t both lose”. Well, for mud wrestling in that oily toilet, there are no white hats, and they all stand to lose. What’s not to like about that?

I don’t like Obama, but I suspect that in this case his doing next to nothing and nothing effective is about what we should do. And, even if we should do more, I don’t trust the Obama administration to do anything but make a mess — waste US blood and treasure.

My guess on what to do now or soon:

(1) Do the very best we can with intelligence.

(2) If the Saudis want us to help the Syrian Sunni rebels, say, with TOW missiles, then maybe we should.

(3) We should target the ISIS leadership and, once we have them killed off, negotiate with what’s left of ISIS along with the other Sunnis, with the help of the Saudis, and tell them to calm down, quit chopping off heads and making sex slaves, help bring together a Sunni government in Sunni areas — right, partition Iraq and Syria, sorry Baghdad — and help those Sunnis be a balance against the Shiites.

Maybe.

Somewhere in there stand to be some players eager to sign deals with, for them, onerous terms; we should be ready to “negotiate” deals really good for us.

The Russians will ensure the victory of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria while testing new weapons systems much as Hitler did in the Spanish Civil War.

http://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/syria-putins-coming-out-party-part-two/

Stay tuned because we are going to be looking at a Russian, Iranian, Syrian axis of evil in the Middle East. Coupled with Hezbollah and Hamas and this goes ugly on an ape quickly.

BRC
http://www.themusingsofthebigredcar.com