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PEOPLE WE ARE LIVING IN THIS WORLD WHERE DEMOCRFACY IS FREE IT'S NOT THE WORD DEMOCRACY IS NOT FREE IT HAS A PRICE A PRICE THAT EVERYONE OF US HAS TO PAY AND ARE STILL PAYING . EACH ONE OF US IS PAYING THAT SHIT EVERY SECOND
THEY CALL IT DEMOCRACY , IS THIS DEMOCRACY KILLING PEOPLE, SPYING US THE GOVERNMENT , TAPING EACH ONE OF OUR CALS, OUR MESSAGES, DON'T YOU SMEEL IT, IT'S THAT, THEY ARE MAKING NTHE SHIT OF US, THEY ARE MAKING IT HAPPEN, WHAT ARE WE THEN THE CIVILIANS, WHAT ARE WE OFF, WHEN ARE DUMB SHIT, WE HAVE BEEN BETRAYED, THEY SIT IN AN OFFICE THEY CLASSIFIED SHITS AND WE ARE AWARE OF NOTHING YOU THINK THAT NEW S THAT COMES IN CNN, BBC WITH HEADINGS BREAKINH NEWS ARE THE BIGGEDST NEWS !!HELL NO
THEY ARE JUST SAMPLES , WITH BIG NEWS HIDDEN FROM US,THEY ARE HIDDING LOT OF THINGS FROM US , AND WE SIT IN OUR HOUSES DRINKING COFFE THIS PEOPLE WITH THE TAG OF DEMCRACY ARE KILLING US MAKING THE VERYSHIT OF US
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What Going to War in Syria Would Really Mean for the U.S.
A brutal dictator, a violent terrorist group, and the morally fraught tradeoff that interventionists face
Attacking Adolf Hitler's Germany benefited moral monster Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union. That inescapable fact of World War II doesn't mean it wasn't worth fighting Nazis. Under the circumstances, allying with Stalin to beat Hitler was the right call. But the consequences of that fraught alliance were themselves horrific. To ignore its downsides would be to misunderstand the real choices America faced.
Today in Syria, the United States faces another set of harrowing tradeoffs. Syria's leader, Bashar al-Assad, is a murderous dictator. The various rebel groups trying to wrest the country from his control include ISIS, a radical Sunni militia. To strike Assad, as Obama threatened to do last summer, would help ISIS. To strike ISIS, as the Obama administration is threatening to do right now, would help Assad. Those are the unsavory choices confronting all who favor intervention. And while the prospect of aiding and abetting Assad or ISIS doesn't decisively prove that intervention is unwise, it is at least a factor that Americans ought to confront with open eyes, rather than pretending the tradeoff away.
The New York Times is helping us to pretend. "Mr. Obama, who has repeatedly called for the ouster of Mr. Assad, is loath to be seen as aiding the Syrian government, even inadvertently," the newspaper reports. "As a result the Pentagon is drafting military options that would strike the militant Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, near the largely erased border between those two nations, as opposed to more deeply inside Syria. The administration is also moving to bolster American support for the moderate Syrian rebels who view Mr. Assad as their main foe."
This is an evasion. While theoretically possible to "thread the needle" such that two parties to a conflict are weakened while a third party is empowered, U.S. intervention in Syria will almost certainly empower either Assad or radical Sunni militias. There is no reason to believe we or anyone else is capable of pursuing a "third way." That level of precision is beyond what we're able to realistically exercise.
The Washington Post's coverage better captures that reality:
The breakaway al-Qaida group is the most powerful faction fighting Assad’s forces, which means a U.S. campaign to weaken the Islamic State extremists could actually strengthen a leader the White House has sought to push from office. Obama could try to counteract that awkward dynamic by also targeting Assad’s forces, though that could drag the U.S. into the bloody, complex conflict—something he has studiously tried to avoid.
The story then presents an evasion from the White House:
White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Monday that Obama has not made a decision on whether to take military action inside Syria, but noted that the president has demonstrated his willingness to take military action to protect American citizens.
“That is true without regard to international borders,” he said.
Earnest tried to tamp down the notion that strikes against the Islamic State could have the unintended consequence of bolstering the Syrian government, saying: “We’re not interested in trying to help the Assad regime.” However, he noted that there are “a lot of cross-pressures here in this situation.”
A White House committed to leveling with us about the war it may start would admit that attacking ISIS will help Assad whether that "interests them" or not, and argue that doing so is the least-awful option.
Is it, though? One reason hawks avoid acknowledging the implications of intervening in Syria is that doing so strengthens the case for non-intervention. As Daniel Larison puts it, "Fighting wars of choice is bad enough, but it is simply perverse to insist on making deals with ugly regimes in order to facilitate the war of choice. If the most effective way of fighting ISIS requires the U.S. to go to war in Syria in concert with the Syrian government, that is just one more argument against waging a war on ISIS in the first place."
A related evasion is the tendency of hawks to undersell how long a war would take and its cost. After the decade-long, $6-trillion debacle in Iraq, you'd think Congress and pundits would be pressing the Obama administration for figures: If the U.S. fights ISIS in Iraq and Syria, what would be the odds of victory? How much would it cost? How many U.S. troops would be killed? How would it effect nearby countries like Iran? And how much of a threat does ISIS actually pose to the U.S. "homeland"? Yet much coverage of Syria is narrowly drawn. Vital questions are studiously ignored, as if they have no bearing on the merits of intervention, while dire warnings are presented with too much hype and too little rigor.
I can conceive of a set of facts that would persuade me that attacking ISIS is the least-awful option available to the U.S. But I haven't encountered them, in part because, once again, the people advocating for war don't seem to have done their due diligence. Too many basic questions are unanswered and too many tradeoffs unacknowledged. These enduring human flaws manifest in their most absurd, cartoonisT form at the nexus of Washington, D.C. neoconservatism, and Fox News. "What’s the harm of bombing them at least for a few weeks and seeing what happens?" Bill Kristol said of ISIS on the infotainment network. "I don’t think there’s much in the way of unanticipated side effects that are going to be bad there." Kristol was, of course, a prominent proponent of the Iraq War, an invasion of choice that he urged without anticipating how it would empower a group like ISIS. Hawks should be forced to think more carefully this time about what military intervention would entail before Americans consider signing on to their latest war.
