Hopefully, NATO will do the right thing and tell the Turks and Russians “your war, have at it.” Alliances and treaties are meant to be broken. No sense in escalation over some agreement made in another different time.
I’m happy that Obama’s default seems to be deliberation, not rash action — he’s exactly the kind of President needed in this case.
Maybe there’s a proxy war going on and the shooting of the Russian plane a warning to Russia.
John Bolton wrote an interesting op Ed which makes it pretty transparent that the west does not want territorial integrity of Syria and Iraq.
Sounds like Fench president Hollande is willing to give up getting rid of Assad to destroy ISIL.
[quote=paramount]This shoot-down could easily be an arch duke type incident.
College kids should worry less about safe spaces and worry more about WW3.[/quote]
Kind of silly to worry about something we can’t control. The time to act was when bush Cheney set the end of the wold in motion. But there was nothing that could’ve been done then either.
Well meaning actions followed by unintended consequences or hubris, stupidity and incompetence?
The attempt to topple Assad and break the Shia Crescent… was it good policy or stupidity, or just bloody evil?
Under the Assad rule, for decades, Syria was a middle income country, not rich nor poor. There were no refugees and people lived fairly happy lives… Now, there are close to 4.5 million refugees out of a population of 17 million.
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